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About Peter Navarro - Speaker on Global Economy:

Over the past decade, Peter 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.

Peter Navarro is a business professor at the University of California-Irvine. He is the author of the path-breaking management book, The Well-Timed Strategy, and the bestselling investment book If It's Raining in Brazil, Buy Starbucks, as well as the books What the Best MBAs Know, and Always a Winner: Finding Your Competitive Advantage in an Up and Down Economy.

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 environment and financial markets for investors and corporate executives.

Navarro's articles have appeared in a wide range of publications, from Business Week, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal to Harvard Business Review, the Sloan Management Review, and the Journal of Business. Professor Navarro is a widely-sought after and gifted public speaker. He has appeared frequently on Bloomberg TV and radio, CNN, CNBC, and NPR, as well as on all three major network news shows.

In 2010 Peter Navarro and Glen Hubbard released Seeds of Destruction: Why the Path to Economic Ruin Runs Through Washington, and How to Reclaim American Prosperity. In this powerful, timely, and nonpartisan book, Hubbard and Navarro take on the most important problem of our age -- a decade-long pattern in which the American economy has grown below its full potential, giving rise to fears about the nation’s future prosperity.

The analytical approach the two authors take is as innovative as it is insightful. They begin by explaining that the growth of any nation is propelled by four drivers -- consumption, business investment, government spending, and net exports. The authors then use this GDP Growth Driver equation to illustrate how each of the four components of the American economy suffer from major structural imbalances. To understand that these structural imbalances make it virtually impossible for the American economy to reach its full potential growth rate is to understand that the key to solving America's economic problems lies in rebalancing the American economy.

Death by China is Navarro's latest book (co-authored with Greg Autry), which is also a documentary feature. The book challenges the dominant paradigm of a Chinese Miracle – the one featuring a modernizing, progressive Chinese state and provides all the details behind the Communist Party’s: Weapons of Jobs Destruction, aggressive military build up, product quality nightmares, and human rights abuses.