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Tony Frost is Associate Professor of Strategy and Economics at the Richard Ivey School of Business at Western University. He received his Ph.D. from MIT’s Sloan School of Management and holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of British Columbia. His doctoral dissertation received the Gunnar Hedlund Award, an international competition recognizing the world’s top dissertation in international business. A member of the Ivey faculty since 1996, Tony’s work focuses on strategy and competition in a global context. His research has been published in leading outlets including Harvard Business Review, Strategic Management Journal, and the Journal of International Business Studies, where he also served on the Editorial Review Board. His teaching and executive education work sit at the intersection of strategy, technology, and the global business environment. He focuses particularly on helping students and executives understand the strategic implications of disruptive technologies, globalization and trade, macroeconomic forces, public policy shifts, and artificial intelligence. Tony is widely regarded as one of Ivey’s most accomplished educators. He is an eight-time recipient of the Lawrence G. Tapp MBA Award for Teaching Excellence — the most in the school’s history — and a six-time winner of the Carol Stephenson Award for Excellence in EMBA Teaching. He has also received the Ivey Teaching Innovation Award, the David G. Burgoyne Award for Outstanding Commitment to Student Development, and the Alumni Faculty Service Award. Over the past decade, Tony has led major Executive Education programs in Canada and internationally, working with organizations across financial services, insurance, energy, utilities, construction materials, aerospace, technology, and food industries. His executive education work focuses heavily on business strategy, organizational transformation, and helping functional leaders develop broader strategic perspective in their roles and careers. He also writes and speaks regularly on issues at the intersection of business, technology, AI, and the global economy. Outside of his academic and executive education work, Tony is an active endurance athlete and longtime participant in masters triathlon competition. He has competed at the Ironman World Championship in Hawaii five times and won his age group at the 2011 ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championship.