International Interests of Economics and Management Faculty

Several faculty members in Albion College's Economics and Management Department have international interests:

Vicki Baker teaches E&M 362, International Management. She has supervised a management project conducted by a joint team of students from Albion College and from ESCIA, a business school in France. She visited France and Greece in spring 2011 in an effort to secure international project opportunities for Albion College students. As part of the Michigan Colleges Alliance (of which Albion College is a member), Vicki is part of the Global Leadership Development Program team for Shape Corporation (headquarters in Grand Haven, MI). Vicki is working with high potential individuals at Shape to train them for leadership advancement within the global company. She was in China and will be in Mexico as part of this executive education training which she helped develop and deliver.

Zhen Li received her B.A. degree at Peking University before obtaining her Ph.D. from Princeton University. She teaches E&M 363, The Chinese Economy; E&M 365, International Finance; and E&M 366, International Trade. She has done research on equity market liberalization in developing countries. She is a native speaker of Mandarin.

Greg Saltzman studied for a year at the London School of Economics and was a visiting fellow at the University of Warwick. He received two Fulbright grants from the U.S. State Department, one to teach labor relations at Jilin University School of Business in China (2008), and the other to teach labor relations and managerial negotiation at Hanyang University School of Business in South Korea (2015). He wrote one journal article comparing the health insurance systems in the U.S. and Canada and another journal article analyzing public opinion about labor disputes in the U.S., Canada, Norway, and Sweden. He reads extensively about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.