This interview is with Martin Kenney, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Community and Regional Development in the Department of Human Ecology. He was appointed in 1989 and retired in 2024.
His research focuses on the interplay between technology, academic institutions, finance, and competition in capitalist economies, in particular in Silicon Valley, and how these dynamics affect people and places. He co-authored or edited seven books and published more than 180 scholarly articles. He is currently a Co-Director of the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy, Senior Fellow at the Research Institute for the Finnish Economy, and a member of the Academic Committee at the Center for Industrial Development and Environmental Governance at Tsinghua University, China. Among other honorary posts he held at other universities, he was the Arthur Andersen Distinguished Visitor at Cambridge University.
He taught technology and society and regional development courses at UC Davis and guest lectured extensively in Asia, Europe and Latin America.
He is interviewed by his friend and colleague, Dave Campbell, Emeritus Specialist in Cooperative Extension in Human Ecology.
