Kent A. Jones
Kent Jones is Professor and Chair of the Economics Division at Babson College. He received the Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy (MALD) from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and his Ph.D. in international economics from the Graduate Institute of International Studies at the University of Geneva, Switzerland.
Dr. Jones specializes in international trade policy, trade institutions and industrial adjustment to trade competition. Recently his research has turned to international entrepreneurship. In addition to several journal publications on trade policy, his books include Politics vs. Economics in World Steel Trade,Export Restraint and the New Protectionism, Who’s Afraid of the WTO? and the just-publishedDoha Blues: Institutional Crisis and Reform in the WTO. His chapter, “Entrepreneurs in the Global Economy,” appeared in the recent Praeger Perspectives volume,Entrepreneurship: The Engine of Growth, and he was co-author of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor(GEM) Executive Report for 2007.
Aside from his position at Babson College, Dr. Jones has also served as a trade economist at the U.S. International Trade Commission and as senior staff economist at the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. He has also served as a consultant for the National Science Foundation and the International Labour Office.
Dr. Jones’ teaching activities have focused on business economics, international trade and finance, and European economics. He has taken part in the planning and delivery of a number of innovative teaching programs at Babson College, including the launch of the integrated core MBA curriculum, cluster courses combining economics and marketing, and corporate and distance learning programs with Lucent Technologies and the Intel Corporation. He also served as an instructor in international economics at the U.S. Department of State training program, and has had visiting positions at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, and Brandeis University.
