Author Details

Paul Clyde is a Clinical Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy and the Movses and Maija Kaldjian Collegiate Lecturer in Business Economics and Public Policy at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. He was president of the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan from 2014-2024 where he was responsible for projects and programs working with the private sector in low- and middle-income countries. Over the past 20 years, he has worked with dozens of companies experimenting with different business models in low and middle income countries.  This work includes advising or directing more than 150 projects with firms in finance, education, energy and healthcare industries in more than a dozen low- and middle-income countries. He  has also worked with corporations ranging in size from small startups to large organizations such as Johnson & Johnson, Novo Nordisk and Microsoft. From 2004-2013 he served as the Academic Director of the Part-time Program at the Ross School of Business where he led the development of the Weekend MBA Program.

Prior to joining the University of Michigan, Paul was an economist at the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and a consultant with National Economic Research Associates. While at the Antitrust Division, he advised the governments of many transition economies on their competition laws and natural monopoly laws. In 1993, he lived in Slovakia and served as an economic adviser to the governments of the Czech Republic and Slovakia on competition policy. Awards include Teacher of the Year, the Andy Andrews Distinguished Service Award and the Collegiate Lecturer. He has published articles in a number of journals including The Journal of Finance, Managerial and Decision Economics and Economic Inquiry. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from UCLA and his B.S. in Business from Indiana University.