Erickson named new director of UCLA International Institute

Professor Christopher Erickson has been named the new senior associate vice provost and director of the UCLA International Institute. In this newly created position, Erickson will be responsible for managing the activities of the institute’s various centers and interdepartmental degree programs. He will collaborate with the directors and chairs to develop strategy, facilitate communications and reassess the institute’s governance structure.

 

A faculty member of the UCLA Anderson School of Management since 1991, Erickson studies various aspects of industrial relations in the local, national and world economies. His research focuses on comparative industrial relations systems, industrial relations and labor market transformation in different regions of the world, wage determination, collective bargaining, innovations in union organizing, and outsourcing of technology work.

 

Erickson has had extensive administrative experience. Among his many roles, he was faculty director of the UCLA-National University of Singapore Global Executive M.B.A. program from its inception in 2003 through 2012; senior associate dean, Global Initiatives and founding director of the Anderson School Center for Global Management; director of the UCLA Center for International Business Education and Research; and vice chair of the faculty of the Anderson School.

 

During the past year, Erickson has been the International Institute’s associate vice provost and has worked on laying the groundwork for developing self-supporting programs under the auspices of a Mellon grant, and helping to organize the Title VI renewal process.