Louis Turner

 

CURRENT POSITIONS:

• Chief Executive, Asia-Pacific Technology Network
• Associate Fellow, Chatham House
• Visiting Fellow, Centre for International Business at the University of Leeds
• Guest lecturer and Class Teacher, Department of Management, London School of Economics

MAIN CURRENT PROJECT (July 2009)

• I am writing up a project which aims to produce a short History of Post-1990 Japanese Investment in the UK
• This has been funded by the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS WITH ASIA-PACIFIC TECHNOLOGY NETWORK

• (formerly "UK-Japan High Technology Industry Forum")
• 1994 - date: Chief Executive and Company Secretary
• APTN sprang out of the Anglo-Japanese work Louis did with Chatham House from the mid-1980s
• APTN RAN three major bilateral Forums with Asian partners
  • UK-Japan High Technology Industry Forum (1986-2005)
    • (20 Forums) (Tokyo, Sendai, Kyoto, Kobe, Osaka and assorted locations in the UK)
  • UK-Korean High Technology Industry Forum (2000-2005)
    • (5 Forums) (Seoul, London and Bristol)
  • UK-China High Technology Industry Forum (2002 - 2005)
    • (3 Forums) (Shanghai, Beijing, London)
• APTN has run an active seminar series (1994 – date), currently running at over 30 per annum.

OTHER AFFILIATIONS

Chatham House (ex-Royal Institute of International Affairs)

• 1970: spoke to Membership Meeting on "Multinationals and Trade Unions"
• 1971-date:  Chatham House member
• 1973-1982: Research Fellow. I joined in 1973 as part of a team focussing on Transnational Relations, then went on to be lead researcher on a number of projects which ended in books on topics such as
  • a history of the international oil industry,
  • The rise of the Newly-Industrializing Countries,
  • Middle Eastern Industrialization,
  • Industrial Collaboration with Japan
• 1982-5: continued writing for the Energy Programme (while based at London Business School – see below)
• 1985-1987: Created an International Business and Technology Programme, within which the UK-Japan High Technology Industry Forum was developed. 
• 1987-1993:  Created and headed the Chatham House Conference Unit, taking the Institute's Conference activities from a £20,000 per annum operation to a five person Unit turning over £1.5 million. We ran the first conferences in places like Moscow (last days of Gorbachev) and even managed one on the politics of Iraq in a brief period in which Saddam Hussein's regime was diplomatically acceptable.
• 1993-2005: Through APTN, continued a working relationship with Chatham House.
  • The UK-Japan High Tech Forums were badged as being run with Chatham House:
  • From 1999-2005, APTN was run from Chatham House premises and our work was badged as being "in association with"Chatham House
• 1994- 2000 Council Member, serving on the Working Party 1996-7.
• 2005- date: Associate Fellow, attached to the Asia Programme

London Business School

• 1982-4: I researched a book on Britain and the Multinational Companies, as IRM Fellow in the Centre for Business Strategy at the LBS, while remaining associated with and writing for with Chatham House’s Energy Programme

London School of Economics

• 1986- date: outside lecturer and class teacher
• 1986- 2002: initially with Professor Susan Strange, I created and co-taught an annual MSc course, "International Business in the International System" for the International Relations Department. This course peaked in popularity in 1999-2000, when it ran over two semesters, attracting 150 graduate students.
• 2002 - date: I am co-teaching a slightly more managerially-oriented version of this course, "Business in the Global Environment" for the Department of Management (with Sir Geoffrey Owen as the lead lecturer). This currently involves 120 Masters students.
• 1993-1998  Working with Mike Hodges, led the development of LSE Summer Schools. Originally, this involved developing an intense, three-week version of the annual Msc course.
• 1995, I co-developed and taught the first-ever LSE Executive Seminar ("The Cutting Edge of Advanced Corporate Strategy"), which was then presented in Kuala Lumpur (1997).
• 1985-9 taught course "The politics of International Economic Institutions" to the LSE's Department of Economics' Masters Programme

BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS

• THE BRITISH RESEARCH OF JAPANESE COMPANIES (Anglo-Japanese Economic Institute 1997) (with David Ray and Tony Hayward)
• GLOBAL SHAKEOUT: (London: Century Business 1992) (with Michael Hodges)
• INDUSTRIAL COLLABORATION WITH JAPAN (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987). (foreword by Hiroshi Takeuchi: co-authors include Michael Hodges)
• EUROPEAN INTERESTS AND GULF OIL (Aldershot: Gower, 1986) (with Valerie Yorke)
• BRITAIN AND THE MULTINATIONALS (Chichester: Wiley, 1985) (with John Stopford)
• THE NEWLY INDUSTRIALIZING COUNTRIES: TRADE AND ADJUSTMENT (London: Allen and Unwin, 1982) (with Neil McMullen)
• MIDDLE EAST INDUSTRIALIZATION: SAUDI AND IRANIAN DOWNSTREAM INVESTMENTS (London: Teakfield/New York: Praeger, 1979) (jointly with James Bedore)
• OIL COMPANIES AND THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM: A STUDY IN TRANSNATIONAL RELATIONS (London & Winchester, Mass: Allen and Unwin, 1978): 2nd edition (paper) 1980: 3rd edition 1983.
• THE GOLDEN HORDES: INTERNATIONAL TOURISM AND THE RISE OF THE PLEASURE PERIPHERY (London: Constables, 1975/New York, St Martin's, 1977) (jointly with John Ash)
• MULTINATIONAL COMPANIES AND THE THIRD WORLD (London: Allen Lane, 1973/New York: Hill & Wang, 1973/Mexico City edition 1977) 
• INVISIBLE EMPIRES: MULTINATIONALS AND THE MODERN WORLD (London/New York/seven other languages, 1970 onwards (Hamish Hamilton in UK: Harcourt Brace in US))

EARLY EDUCATION

• Salford University:
  • 1965-73 Research Fellow
  • 1964-5 Dip MS (Diploma in Management Studies)
• Oxford University:
  • 1961-64 BA (Psychology & Philosophy)

 

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