Phil Young has over 25 years of corporate education experience with multinational corporations in the USA, Asia, Latin America, Europe and the Middle East. He is the founder and president of Nth Degree Systems, Inc., a corporate education consulting firm that designs and implements seminars and training programs in finance, marketing, and strategy. 

He is also a member of the Duke Corporate Education Global Learning Resource Network, which The Financial Times and Business Week continue to rate as the world’s #1 provider of customized corporate education services. Prior to founding his own firm, Nth Degree, Phil was a Professor of Economics and Finance at Pace University in New York, where he taught in the MBA program for 25 years. While at Pace he was appointed as the first visiting professor in IBM's International Finance, Planning and Administration School located in NY and Belgium. In addition, he was the Director of Corporate Education for Pace University. His responsibilities included the academic leadership of Pace's corporate education and Executive MBA programs.

He has also taught in executive education programs sponsored by Columbia University, The University of California at Berkeley, Thunderbird, and Cornell University. He is the co-author of a major economics textbook entitled Managerial Economics: Economic Tools for Today's Decision Makers, published by Prentice-Hall (2008, 6th edition forthcoming.) Along with a colleague, he has written an important book in economics for business managers entitled The Portable MBA in Economics, John Wiley & Sons, 1994. International editions of this book have been translated into Chinese, Russian, and Spanish.

Phil received a B.A. from the University of Hawaii, a Master's degree in international relations from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in economics from New York University.