RESUME:

Areas of Expertise: specialize in international political economy, international business, public-private sector relations, and "corporate social responsibility " (CSR). Research focuses on the use of regulations by firms as a source of competitive advantage, and the impact of international trade and investment on domestic regulations.  At Georgetown, teach Introduction to International Business Diplomacy (INAF-392), Multinational Business: Structures and Strategy After the Internet(INAF-482), Competitive Business-Government Strategies (INAF-597), Digital Entrepreneurship in a Less-Bordered World (INAF-407), Business and Public Policy (MGMT-701), and Special Topics in Business-Government Relations (MGMT-704).

Professional Highlights: Assistant Professor at Georgetown University; was assistant vice president at Citicorp; member of Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. Department of State; Teaching Fellow in Harvard's Government Department and MIT's Political Science Department. Conducted research in major financial centers in the US and Europe, and consulted for World Bank and AID missions in Africa and Southeast Asia; appeared on CNN World News on issues related to international business diplomacy; addressed UN conference in Kazakstan.

EDUCATION:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ph.D. in Political Science, June 1995. Fields: International Political Economy; Comparative Politics; and International Business. Dissertation: "Regulation in Open Economies: Competition and Convergence Among Jurisdictions." The dissertation analyzes the effects of open economies on domestic regulations. It constructs a model which differentiates private sector interests using transaction cost economics, and demonstrates their importance in shaping regulations. The model explains a previously unidentified pattern in international political economy. Committee: Professors Kenneth Oye (Chair), Richard Locke and Peter Haas.

Middlebury College. B.A. in Philosophy and Third World Development, June, 1982. Cum laude and Department Honors.

RESEARCH AND TEACHING AWARDS:

Harvard University:

• awarded three annual Certificates of Distinction in Teaching for "special contributions to the teaching of undergraduates in Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges" (1990-1993). Special accolades in Harvard CUE Guide. Brought course evaluations to highest level ever. 
• nominated for "Levinson Memorial Teaching Award" (1993) for excellence as Teaching Fellow.

• Kann Rassmussen Foundation: awarded dissertation grant through the MIT Initiative on Environmental Leadership (1993-1995). 
• research, teaching appointments (1985-88).

1996-present Assistant Professor, Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service, IBD Program, tenure-track position

1990, 1992, 1993 Head Teaching Fellow for Samuel P. Huntington, Harvard University

1993-1994 Senior Thesis Advisor, Harvard University

1991, 1992 Teaching Fellow, Joseph Nye, Jr., Harvard University.

1991 Teaching Fellow, Ethan Kapstein, Harvard University.

1989 Teaching Assistant, Ellen Immergut, MIT Political Science Department.

1986 Teaching Assistant, Lincoln P. Bloomfield, MIT Political Science Dept.
 

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Citicorp (Citibank): Assistant Vice President, Analytical Support Group. Developed position papers for Chairman John Reed and Citicorp's Policy Committee. (1989-91)

U.S. Department of State, Policy Planning Staff: Prepared briefing materials and articles for U.S. Secretary of State George P. Shultz. Met with Secretary Shultz to draft his "Reflections on Tenure as Labor Secretary," for publication in the Monthly Labor Review. Examined long-term global trends for Schultz-Shevardnadze meetings. Researched global financial integration and technology transfers. (1987)

James E. Austin Associates: Field research and analysis of Sri Lanka's economy. With AID-Colombo and the Sri Lankan Business Development Center formulated private sector policies. (Winter 1987)

Harvard Business School: Professor James E. Austin, Research Assistant. Researched and drafted papers on political and cultural analysis, published in Managing in Developing Countries: Strategic Analysis and Operating Techniques (New York: Macmillian, 1990). (1985-86)

The World Bank: Performed cost-benefit analysis on $60 million project in Mali to restructure the country's largest state-owned enterprise, responsible for half Mali's rice production. (Summer 1986)

U.S. AID: Developed the first private-sector promotion agency in Guinea since independence, Centre Nationale pour le Promotion d'Investissements Privée. (Summer 1985)

MIT/Xerox Corporation: Research Associate to Professor Charles Jonscher, MIT and Paul Strassman, Xerox. Modeled the growth in information workers and analyzed the changes in productivity (often losses) resulting from investment in information technology. (1984-85)

Chemonics International Consulting: administrative and research responsibilities for World Bank and U.S. AID projects. Wrote proposals, work plans, critical path studies. (1982-84, 1992)

UNHCR and CARE-Thailand: Thai-Cambodian border. Responsible for relief operation feeding 200,000 Kampuchean refugees. (1980, 1981).
 

"The Finnish Telecommunications Market: advantage of local access incumbency," (co-authored with P. Natterman), Telecommunications Policy, Vol. 22, No. 9, pp. 757-773, 1998

Regulation in Open Economies: Competition and Convergence Among Jurisdictions, dissertation, 1995; under revision for Cornell University Press.

"Private Sector Interests and Interjurisdictional Competition" (working title, drawn from dissertation) co-authored with Kenneth A. Oye, MacArthur Working Paper series, 1997

Research papers for Citicorp included: "Who Holds Baker-15 Debt? By Country and Bank"; "Debt Negotiation Strategy"; "IMF Quota Increases: A Discussion Paper"; "Alternative Responses to Proposed IMF Quota Increases: A Policy Options Paper"; "LDC Debt Basics"; and "Emerging Economies Market-Attractiveness Study" 1989-1991.

"Non-superpower Arms Transfers: Implications for U.S. National Security," working paper, U.S. Department of State, Policy Planning Staff (classified), 1987.

"Private Sector Developing in Sri Lanka," for U.S. AID and J.E. Austin Associates, 1987.

"Why the U.S. Voted to Seat Cambodia's Pol Pot," Masters' thesis equivalent, MIT 1987.

"Office du Niger Appraisal Report, Cost-Benefit Analysis," World Bank, West Africa Projects, Agriculture Division C, 1986.

"Tilting at Windmills: Rural immigrants fight perceived threat to environmental quality," co-authored with Professor Susan Hanson, Saville Heddon, and John Griffith, published in Proceedings of the New England Geographical Society, 1982.

"A Moral Critique of U.S. Policy Toward Kampuchea Post-1975" and "Toward A Moral Obligation of Third-World Development," honors thesis, Middlebury College, 1982.
 

"Comparative (Regulatory) Advantage: Firm-State Relations in the Global Economy," paper presented to the International Studies Association, Minneapolis, MN; March 18, 1998 (co-authored with Kenneth A. Oye).

"Russia's Bid to Make it G-8," live CNN World News, anchor Jim Clancy (April 27, 1997).

"Asset Specificity and Regulatory Harmonization," paper presented to the Workshop on International Environmental Issues, Harvard University (December 1, 1995).

"Trade and the Environment," invited to speak to Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH-Zurich) MIT-University of Tokyo consortium (September 27, 1995).

"Interjurisdictional Harmonization and Divergence Across Open Economies," paper presented to American Political Science Association, New York (September 1994).

"Open Economies' Competition for Comparative Regulatory Advantage," paper presented to joint MIT-Harvard Research Seminar on International Environmental Institutions, led by Robert O. Keohane and Eugene Skolnikoff, Cambridge (November 1993).

"Impact of Foreign Investment in Burma," Association for Asian Studies, invited to speak on panel debate on democratization, Boston (March 24, 1994).

"Strategies for Democratization," invited to address first International Burma Congress, New York (November 13-14, 1993); founding member of Friends of Burma at Harvard; advisor on strategies to effectively utilize multinational corporations and foreign investments in Burma. (1991-95)
 

Language Skills: French (high intermediate). Spanish (basic knowledge).