Denis Fred Simon is President of Monitor Group (China). As a senior member of the Asia leadership team within Monitor Group (Asia), Dr. Simon helps drive overall business development and provides high-level management support and intellectual leadership for Monitor’s strategy engagements in China. Prior to joining Monitor, Dr. Simon was Managing Director of the Business Strategy and Architecture Innovation Center in Asia for Scient Corporation. And, prior to his tenure at Scient, he was an Associate Partner at Andersen Consulting China, where he served as Director of the China Strategy Group. He also served as the General Manager for Andersen Consulting’s China practice in Beijing from 1998-1999. From 1983-1995, Simon served as a private consultant to numerous Fortune Global 500 firms regarding their business entry and operations in China. His projects included market entry strategies, competitor analyses, industry analysis, joint venture partner assessment, distribution strategy, and technology transfer diagnostics.

Prior to joining the world of professional services in 1995, Dr. Simon served as professor of international business strategy and technology management at the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University (1987-1995) and as the Ford International Professor of Management & Technology at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1983-1987). He received his M.A. degree in 1975 and Ph.D. in 1980 from the University of California at Berkeley. He received his B.A. degree from the State University of New York in 1974. 

Shan Li
Denis Fred Simon
David C. Wang
 Peter Nolan
Gary Jefferson
 Mengfei Wu
Edward Steinfeld

 
Key Publications:

Technological Innovation in China (Harper Books, 1987), Science and Technology in Post-Mao China [edited with Merle Goldman] (Harvard University Press, 1989), The Emerging Technological Trajectory of the Pacific Rim (ME Sharpe, 1995), Corporate Strategies Towards the Pacific Rim (Routledge, 1996), and Techno-Security in an Age of Globalization (ME Sharpe, 1997).