David Thomas is the Beedie Professor of International Management at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. He has taught in Australia, Turkey, Hong Kong, France, and the United States. He is the author of ten books--his book Cross-Cultural Management Essential Concepts won the R. Wayne Pace Human Resource Development Book of the Year award from the Academy of Human Resource Management. He is currently the Area Editor of the Journal of International Business Studies and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of World Business, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and European Journal of Cross-Cultural Competence and Management.