Hideki Yamawaki is Professor of Management and Associate Dean at the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management in Claremont Graduate University. Formerly, he was Professor of Economics at the Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium and Visiting Associate Professor in the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA and. From 1982 to 1990 he was Senior Research Fellow at the Wissenschaftszentrum für Sozialforschung Berlin in Germany. 

Professor Yamawaki received his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University, and his M.A. and B.A. in Economics from Keio University in Tokyo. He has been invited to hold visiting appointments in a number of European universities including the University of Paris I Sorbonne-Pantheon, the University of Rome, and Bocconi University in Milan. In 1997 he was named a distinguished invited professor at the Department of Economics of Keio University in Tokyo.

Professor Yamawaki has published over 40 articles in professional journals and volumes during the past 15 years in the fields of industrial organization, international trade and investment, and international business strategy. His research has focused on examining the behavior and performance of US, European, and Japanese corporations in international markets. His forthcoming book, Japanese Exports and Foreign Direct Investment: Imperfect Competition in International Markets, Cambridge University Press, provides a historical overview of the international competitiveness of Japanese firms and industries in the past 50 years.

Dr. Yamawaki has served as consultant to government agencies in Belgium and the Netherlands, the European Commission, the World Bank, and the OECD. In 1995 he was appointed as member of the Economic Advisory Group at the European Commission (DG II Economic and Financial Affairs).  He served as an associate editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics and Managing Editor of International Journal of Industrial Organization.