Quincy Institute Welcomes Denis Simon as a Senior Fellow

WASHINGTON, DC – The Quincy Institute welcomes Dr. Denis Simon as a senior fellow in its East Asia program, where he will focus on global science and technology (S&T) issues and US-China S&T relations.  

Simon brings extensive experience to this role, including faculty appointments at MIT’s Sloan School of Mgt, the Fletcher School at Tufts University, and the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. Simon also previously served as a non-resident fellow at QI. He also has held senior leadership roles in academia that include dean of the Lally School of Management and Technology at Rensselaer Polytechnical Institute (RPI), vice provost for International Strategic Initiatives at Arizona State University, senior adviser to the president for China Affairs at Duke University, and executive director of the Center for Innovation Policy in Duke’s School of Law. From 2015-2020, he served as executive vice chancellor of Duke Kunshan University, a Sino-US joint venture campus in cooperation with Wuhan University located in Jiangsu province.

“At a time of growing uncertainty over the future of US-China relations — including the critical science and technology exchanges that have brought enormous benefits to America’s economy — Denis provides vital expertise that will bolster QI’s work to improve scientific cooperation as a basis for stabilizing the balance of power between the two super powers,” said QI CEO Lora Lumpe. 

Along with his numerous academic achievements, Dr. Simon led two notable management consulting practices in China.  From 1995-2000, he directed Andersen Consulting in Beijing ( now Accenture) and from 2000-2002, he served as founding president of Monitor Group China.  In those roles, he served as a senior consultant and trusted adviser to numerous top-tier Global Fortune 500 companies as they positioned themselves for long-term growth in the China market.  

“The Quincy Institute provides me with an ideal home to continue my academic pursuits. The continuation of US-China S&T cooperation is absolutely essential for the betterment of each country and humanity as a whole,” said Denis Simon.

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