Born in St. Stephen, NB, Canada, Professor Lorraine Eden received her Ph.D. with Distinction in Economics from Dalhousie University. Before joining Texas A&M’s Management Department in 1995, she was Professor of International Affairs at Carleton University, where she continues to hold an appointment as Adjunct Research Professor. She has also held full-time appointments in Economics at Mount St. Vincent and Brock universities, and a visiting appointment at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

Professor Eden has 85 publications in print or forthcoming, including six scholarly books and 30 journal articles.  Her core research area is the political economy of multinational enterprises, focusing on transfer pricing (the pricing of products traded within MNEs) where she is recognized as a world authority.  Her most significant publication is Taxing Multinationals (University of Toronto Press, 1998), reviewed in the Journal of Economic Literature (March 2001). Last fall, she was selected as guest editor for The Economics of Transfer Pricing in Edward Elgar’s prestigious series, The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics.  Her other scholarly books are Multinationals in North America (1994), Multinationals in the Global Political Economy (1993), Retrospectives on Public Finance (1991) and Multinationals and Transfer Pricing  (1985).  Her publications appear in internationally recognized journals, including Academy of Management Journal; Accounting, Organizations and Society; Canadian Journal of Economics; Journal of International Business Studies; Millennium; and Public Finance/Finances Publiques. She has been guest editor for Academy of Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies and Millennium. (The JIBS issue on Multinationals: The Janus Face of Globalization is reviewed in the January 2002 issue of Foreign Policy.) She sits on several editorial boards including Journal of International Business Studies and Journal of International Management.  Copies of recent publications can be downloaded at http://cibs.tamu.edu/eden/Publications/Publications-List.html.

Professor Eden has received several major research awards including a Canada-US Fulbright Research Fellowship at Harvard University (1992-93), a Pew Faculty Fellowship in International Affairs Case Teaching and Research at Harvard University (1991-92), and a Carleton University Faculty Research Achievement Award (1994-95).  She is included in the first Who's Who in International Business Education and Research (1999).  Her research has received approximately $470,000 in individual and group grants for research projects in international business, international economics and international political economy. In Fall 2001, she was named the James Earl Rudder Faculty Fellow in the Department of Management. In February 2002, she became the first recipient of the university-wide Texas A&M Bush International Research Award for faculty excellence in international research (http://bush.tamu.edu/news/Stories/fullstory.asp?i=51). Most recently, she was promoted to Professor of Management, and named as a Texas A&M University Faculty Fellow for 2002-2007. Dr. Eden also has more than ten years of consulting experience, working with the Canadian and US governments on transfer pricing and international taxation matters.