ASEC Executive

The Applied Services Economic Centre (ASEC) is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, as an affiliated organization of the Geneva Association, but operates out of both Geneva and the University of Guelph (close to Toronto) where its Program of Research on Systemic Risks and Vulnerabilities (PROSERV) is currently based.

Its two Executive Directors are Patrick M. Liedtke, Secretary-General and Managing Director of the Geneva Association and Professor R. Brian Woodrow, University of Guelph, Canada. Both are jointly responsible for the direction and operation of ASEC and its ongoing activities. In addition. ASEC is guided in its evolving direction and activities by an ASEC Council of prominent individuals with broad experience and expertise within the world of services and economic/social research.

ASEC Executive (Co-Directors)

Patrick Liedtke,
Secretary-General & Managing Director,
The Geneva Association,
Geneva, Switzerland
 

R. Brian Woodrow,                                  
Professor of Political Science,                                        
University of Guelph,
Guelph, Ontario, Canada 
 

                                                                                                               
Professor Brian Woodrow has taught in the Department of Political Science at the University of Guelph for more than 30 years and, in one capacity or another, has been associated with ASEC since the late 1980’s. Educated at the University of Toronto where he obtained a Ph.D in Political Economy, he continues to teach graduate and undergraduate courses at Guelph in international political economy, Canadian government and public policy. Through ASEC, he has carried out research and studies on the evolution of the ‘services economy’, on trade in financial services, especially insurance, and most recently on vulnerability analysis and assessment. Currently, he is primarily responsible for directing ASEC’s Program of Research on Systemic Risks and Vulnerabilities (PROSERV).