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Lorraine Eden

Professor Emerita of Management
Adjunct Professor of Law
Department of Management

Education

PhD Economics with Distinction in Economics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
MA Economics, McGill University, Montreal, PQ, Canada
BA Honors Economics, Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB, Canada

Research Interest

Multinational enterprises, transfer pricing, international taxation, ethics

Biography

Dr. Lorraine Eden is Professor Emerita of Management in the Mays Business School and an Adjunct Professor in the School of Law at Texas A&M University.

Born in Canada with economics degrees from three Canadian universities (Mount Allison, McGill and Dalhousie), Dr. Eden taught at Mount St. Vincent, Brock, and Carleton universities before moving in 1995 to join the Management Department at Texas A&M, where she taught courses on International Business, Multinational Enterprises (MNEs), and Transfer Pricing until her retirement from fulltime teaching in 2019. In 2007, she created the Transfer Pricing Aggies program, which trained nearly 350 graduate students; more than a third became transfer pricing and international tax professionals. Now an emerita professor in the Mays Business School, Dr. Eden continues to teach transfer pricing as an adjunct professor in the TAMU School of Law’s Transfer Pricing Law and Policy Certificate.

Dr. Eden’s research interests lie at the intersection of economics, international business and public policy, with a particular focus on the strategies, structures and political economy of MNEs. She is considered one of the founding scholars of transfer pricing economics, i.e., the economics of pricing transactions within multi-unit organizations such as MNEs. Her current research focuses on transfer pricing and international taxation in the digital economy, responses of MNEs to disruptive shocks, and ethics in business and academia.

As of 2024, Dr. Eden has more than 220 publications with 23,000+ Google Scholar citations, placing her research among the top two percent of research scientists worldwide. Her books include Taxing Multinationals (1998), Multinationals in North America (1994), Retrospectives on Public Finance (1991), Multinationals and Transfer Pricing (1985, 2017), The Ethical Professor (2018), The Economics of Transfer Pricing (2019), and Research Methods in International Business (2020). She has articles published in all the major management and international business journals including Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review; Canadian Journal of Economics, Journal of International Business Studies, Organization Science, and Strategic Management Journal.

Dr. Eden has been a Fulbright Scholar and a Pew Fellow. She was 2008-2010 editor-in-chief of the Journal of International Business Studies, the top-ranked journal in the field of international business. She served two terms on the Academy of International Business (AIB) Executive Board, including as 2017-2018 AIB President. She was elected an AIB Fellow in 2004 and served as 2020-2023 Dean of the AIB Fellows. She received the AIB John H. Dunning President’s Award in 2012, and the inaugural WAIB (Women in the Academy of International Business) Woman of the Year award in 2016. In 2019, Dr. Eden won two JIBS 50th Anniversary Gold Medals (for scholarly service and scholarship). She also received the Medal of the City from Rennes, France, and was honored by the European International Business Academy (EIBA) in its 2019 research volume, Progress in International Business Research. In 2022, she received the Outstanding Service to the Global Community Award from the International Management Division of the Academy of Management. She also received the International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management (IFSAM) Award for Excellence in Societally Relevant Management Scholarship. In 2024, she was commissioned as a “Yellow Rose of Texas” by the Governor and Secretary of State for the State of Texas, for community service and philanthropy.

For more than 30 years, Dr. Eden has been a consultant to MNEs, government and international organizations on transfer pricing and MNE strategies and structures. She has testified as an expert witness before the courts, national governments and international organizations. She is an affiliated expert with the Analysis Group where her work focuses on transfer pricing controversy. She currently serves as a member of the 2022-2025 United Nations Subcommittee on Transfer Pricing, creating interstitial guidance to accompany the UN Practical Manual on Transfer Pricing for Developing Countries.

Dr. Eden is married to Dr. Charles F. Hermann, the founding director of The Bush School of Government & Public Service at Texas A&M. Upon their joint retirement from Texas A&M, Dr. Eden and Dr. Hermann established the Lorraine and Charles Hermann Endowed Excellence Fellowship (the Hermann Fellows) program in the Bush School. Their gift now provides an annual Fellowship to two second-year graduate students in the Department of International Affairs in the Bush School.

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