Stephen Blank is Co-Chair of the North American Transportation Competitiveness Research Council. He serves as Senor Research Analyst at Arizona State University’s North American Center for Transborder Studies; Adjunct Research Scholar, Center for Energy, Marine Transport and Public Policy at Columbia University; and Senior Fellow, Centre for International Governance Innovation in Waterloo, Ontario.

Dr. Blank holds a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College, a master's degree from Cambridge University and a master's degree and doctorate from Harvard. He was a member of the University of Pittsburgh’s Political Science Department (1967-74) and Pace University’s Lubin School of Business (1986-2006). He has been a visiting professor at Yale’s School of Organization and Management, the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth (Visiting Professor 1981-89), the University of Toronto, Dalhousie University, the University of British Columbia, the International University of Japan, Columbia University’s School of Public and International Affairs and HEC-Montreal.

From 1991 to 1998, Dr. Blank headed Canadian Programs at the Americas Society/Council of the Americas. He served as managing director of the PanAmerican Partnership for Business Education, an alliance of four North American business schools, in 1997-2004. In 1998, he served as a Claude Bissell Visiting Professor of US-Canada Relations at the University of Toronto and in 2002, he was awarded L’Ordre National du Quebec by the Government of Quebec. In 2004-05, Dr. Blank was a Fulbright Distinguished Professor associated with the Chair of United States Economic and Political Studies in the University of Montreal’s Centre for International Study and Research. He was founding director of the North American Center for Transborder Studies at Arizona State University in 2005. He was a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow and a scholar in residence at the Villa Serbeloni, the Rockefeller Foundation’s study center in Bellagio, Italy.

Dr. Blank has written widely on Canada and North American developments and appears frequently on Canadian radio and television and as a speaker at conferences and meetings.  He is the author or co-author of eleven books and many articles. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Board of Advisors of the Mexican Cultural Institute of New York and the Professional Advisory Council of the G8 Research Group.