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Theodore H. Moran

Marcus Wallenberg Chair in International Business and Finance at Georgetown University

Georgetown University

About me

Theodore H. Moran holds the Marcus Wallenberg Chair in International Business and Finance at the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, where he teaches and conducts research at the intersection of international economics, business, foreign affairs, and public policy. Dr. Moran is founder of the Landegger Program in International Business Diplomacy, and serves as Director in providing courses on international business-government relations and negotiations to some 600 undergraduate and graduate students each year. His most recent books include Foreign Direct Investment and Development: Launching a Second Generation of Policy Research (Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2011). Dr. Moran is a consultant to the United Nations, to diverse governments in Asia and Latin America, and to international business and financial communities. In 2000, he was appointed Counselor to the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) of the World Bank Group. In 2002, Dr. Moran was named Chairman of the Committee on Monitoring International Labor Standards of the National Academy of Science, and in 2007 he was appointed Associate to the National Intelligence Council, serving the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States. Professor Moran received his PhD from Harvard in 1971. He is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and at the Center for Global Development.