Robert Koepp

Robert Koepp is a lecturer at the College of Business Administration at Loyola Marymount University and the founder and principal of Los Angeles-based Geoeconomix, an independent consultancy focused on the intersecting economics of global markets, technology, and government policy. He also serves on the Advisory Board for the Hong Kong-based fintech company, FinFabrik, and on the Advisory Council of the Center on AI Technology for Humankind (AITH) at National University of Singapore. He has also served as a lecturer and adjunct professor at California State University Long Beach, Pepperdine University, and the University of Southern California. Throughout a long-running global management career, Rob most recently served as director and the chief economist of the Corporate Network in Hong Kong for The Economist Group, parent company of the weekly publication, The Economist. His other executive positions include senior roles in international media, finance, technology and energy. He has also worked extensively in economic research involving development policy, technology clustering, and capital markets. Rob has previously authored two full-length books, Betting on China: Chinese Stocks, American Stock Markets, and the Wagers on a New Dynamic in Global Capitalism and Clusters of Creativity: Enduring Lessons on Innovation and Entrepreneurship from Silicon Valley and Europe’s Silicon Fen. He was also the English editor and translator of a best-selling Japanese manga biography on George Soros. He is contributing the capstone chapter, “Locating the Digital Silk Road in the Belt and Road Initiative,” to the Adelphi series book, China’s Digital Expansion: The Digital Silk Road, published by The International Institute of Strategic Studies forthcoming in Spring 2021.

Publications

Global Trends, Dynamics, and Imperatives for Strategic Development in Business Education in an Age of Disruption
Anatoly Zhuplev, Robert Koepp. © 2022. 288 pages.
Over the past two centuries, the world’s socio-economic progression has gone through profound paradigm changes unfolding along four major development stages. Higher education has...