Educational Background: Ph.D., Texas at Austin (1970); M.A., Northern Illinois University; B.A., Roosevelt University

Fields of research and teaching interests:

Most recently: The positive consequences for urban economies of an aging population, and urban competitivneess and urban strategic economic planning.

Also: Economics of integration, The European Union, U.S./Canada relations, urban economies and globalization, and culture policy and trade conflict. While his primary teaching in done in the area of international economics, Prof. Kresl offers courses in allof his research areas, including a Capstone Seminar that looks at the ways in which trade has affected the cultural industries, such as media and the arts, in various countries, and a Foundation Seminar, for First Year Students, "Perspectives on Cities." He has also offered courses on "Cities and the Culture of Creatvity," "Keynes, Roosevelt and the 1930s," among others. He has taught in both Bucknell-en-France (1990 and 1977) and Bucknell in London (1992 and 1998), and taken students on study trips to Scandinavia (1973), the Alpine Region (2004)and China (2005) and several Jan Plan trips to Canada.

Recent activities:

Currently Prof. Kresl is doing a project on the positive consequences for urban economies of an aging population. He is including in his study 15 cities in the US, 15 in the EU (ex Italy), and ten in Italy. He will spend two months during the Fall of 2008 in Turin, Italy, working with Daniele Ietri of the Politecnico, with support from the Internationa Center for Ecnomic Research. The project will conclude with a book that is contracted with Edgar Elgar Publishers.

He has been participating with the Italian Association for Study of Local Development (AISLo) on a study of the competitiveness of Italian cities.

Prof. Kresl also works with the Global Urban Competitiveness Group, which he co-founded with Ni Pengfei of the Chinese Academ for social sciences, and is currently working on the third application of his model of urban competitiveness to the 24 largest U.S. cities

His recent recent publications focus on the effects of globalization on urban economies and on the impact of NAFTA on Canadian and Quebec culture. He has done work for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the United Nations' Habitat II project. He is a past-President of the Association for Canadian Studies in the U.S. and member of the editorial boards of both its journal, The American Review of Canadian Studies, and Quebec Studies. He is also co-founder and President of the Global Urban Competitiveness Group.

Prof. Kresl is also currently working on an application of his model of urban competitiveness to the 48 largest U.S. cities and, with colleagues in these economies, to cities in Mexico, India and the European Union.

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