Peter Navarro

Peter Navarro received his PhD in economics from Harvard University in 1986 and is professor emeritus at the Merage School of Business, University of California-Irvine.   Professor Navarro’s unique and internationally recognized expertise lies in his ‘big picture’ application of a highly sophisticated but easily accessible macroeconomic analysis of the business cycle and stock and bond markets for corporate executives and investors.At UC-Irvine, Professor Navarro was a pioneer in online teaching; he was the first to offer online economics courses at UCI, teaching online as early as the 1990s.  For his pioneering work and excellence in teaching both online and in the classroom, Professor Navarro was awarded the UCI's prestigious Distinguished Faculty Award for Teaching in 2016.In 2017, Professor Navarro took leave from UCI to serve four years in the White House as the Director of Trade and Manufacturing Policy.  Today, he remains professor emeritus at UCI.Professor Navarro best-selling books include the ground-breaking management strategy books The Well-Timed Strategy and Always A Winner, the stock market investing classic If It's Raining in Brazil, Buy Starbucks, and his three-volume series on China.Over the course of his career, Professor Navarro has been a keynote speaker on management, finance, global politics and the economy at hundreds of events. His speaking style is unique; it involves a very active engagement of the audience using a state-of-the-art audience response system. Professor Navarro has also been a frequent media commentator, with numerous appearances on cable channels such as CNBC, CNN, MSNBC, Fox, and Bloomberg as well as on all major broadcast networks and PBS.Professor Navarro's articles have appeared in publications such as Business Week, Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.This course was originally developed for business major undergraduates and MBA students at UC-Irvine, but it is accessible to all levels.