Globalization Expert, Professor & Distinguished Teaching Fellow of International Business
Dr. David Detomasi is a professor from Cochrane, Alberta, at the heart of Canada’s active and vibrant energy sector. With decades of academic and industry experience, he brings current, relevant and thought-provoking insights to students and professionals. Dr. Detomasi specializes in topics around international business, corporate governance, geopolitics, and natural resource development. He has a vibrant personality with a healthy dose of realism, and he continues to grab the attention and admiration of many while teaching in undergraduate, MBA, and executive programs.
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People need energy, and countries will do what is necessary to get it. How will countries view the 21st century energy landscape, and who will dominate that landscape? Will geopolitics dominate, as powerful countries compete to secure supply? Or will advances in renewable energy systems fundamentally change the global energy landscape? Will costs remain manageable? What will happen in the “Green Revolution”?
The geopolitics of energy have never been more immediately relevant for people, businesses and governments. This talk will show listeners what the global energy system looks like now and give scenarios of what the global energy system might look like. It will focus on what the future global energy system might look like, and how individuals, companies, and governments should prepare for it. It will cover current sources of potential conflict and reasons for optimism about the global energy system.
The world has witnessed tremendous economic growth from globalization. It has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and raised living standards around the globe. Yet it has also left millions of people felling left out, abandoned, and angry.
What has really changed, and how worried should we be that globalization has ended? This talk will focus on how geopolitics will change how the global economy works. The globalization “system” really was several systems – international trade, international finance, energy, immigration – that determined how and where things got made, and who pocketed the money.
Geopolitics is not new, and people need not be frightened of it. But they do need to understand how it works, as geopolitics is now re-writing the rules of the global economic game. This talk will give listeners an engaging look at how their world has changed, and what are some proactive steps that will prepare them well to prosper in the future.
Dr. Detomasi is a Professor & Distinguished Teaching Fellow of International Business. He completed his PhD from the Department of Political Studies at Queen’s University in 1999, specializing in international political economy. He also holds a Master of Arts in War Studies from the Royal Military College of Canada, a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from Queen’s University and is a graduate of the Executive Program on the Global Financial System from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
Dr. Detomasi’s research interests include globalization, geopolitics, and corporate and non-profit governance. His book, Profits, Power and Petroleum: Navigating the Economics, Politics, and Geopolitics of Oil, was published by the University of Toronto Press in 2022. He teaches courses on strategy, governance, and the geopolitics of global competition in undergraduate, MBA, and executive education programs at the Smith School of Business and has taught programs in Canada, Europe, and the United Arab Emirates. He has served as Academic Director for Global Business, Queen’s Executive Development Centre. He has also served for a five-year term as academic director for the Fundamentals of Governance Program, Queen’s Executive Development Centre, and has served as Vice-Chair of the Queen’s University Senate.
His scholarly research has appeared in such journals as Journal of Business Ethics, International Studies Review, Global Governance, Defence Analysis, and the Canadian Review of American Studies, and he has authored numerous teaching cases and practitioner notes. Dr. Detomasi is also a regular contributor to the media: recent interviews he has given and opinion pieces he has written have appeared in The Toronto Star and The Globe and Mail, and on CBC’s Cross Country Checkup, and has contributed opinion pieces on the global economy to The Globe and Mail and PriceWaterhouseCoopers.
In the private sector, Dr. Detomasi has consulted on global business practices, competitiveness, strategy, and governance issues with Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and the World Economic Forum. Other previous clients have included the International Association of Plastic Distributors, the Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB) of Alberta, Nexen, Inc., the Ontario Public Service, the Frontenac Mortgage Investment Corporation, the Mortgage Investment Corporation of Eastern Ontario, the Mubadala Investment Group (Abu Dhabi) the Kingston Frontenac Lennox and Addington County Public Health Unit, TransX Group of Companies, Royal Building Products Inc., the Provincial Valuation Services Corporation of Nova Scotia, and PowerStream Inc, The Calgary Stampede, and numerous other clients.
Dr. Detomasi resides in Kingston, is married, and has three children.
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