Mike Veseth, Professor, author and editor of The Wine Economist

Mike is editor of the widely read industry blog, The Wine Economist, which analyses and interprets today’s global wine markets. He has also authored more than a dozen books including best-selling Wine Wars (2011) and the forthcoming Extreme Wine (2013). Wine Wars received the silver medal in ForeWord Review’s 2011 Business & Economics Book of the Year awards and was selected Best American Wine History Book 2011 by Gourmand International.

An academic at heart, Mike is professor emeritus of International Political Economy at the University of Puget Sound in Washington. He is an authority on the political economy of globalisation and the global wine market. He was named Washington State’s Professor of the Year for 2010 by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

Mike is a presenter at the ‘Australia on the global stage - Global market trends and Australian wine’ business session.