Michael Czinkota

Adjunct Professor

Dr. Czinkota teaches international business and trade at the McDonough Graduate School of Business at Georgetown University, where he also served as the chairman of the National Center for Export-Import Studies. Fluent in Spanish and German, he has held professorial appointments in Asia, Australia, Europe and the Americas.

Dr. Czinkota served in the U.S. government during the Reagan and Bush Administrations. In the Bureau of Export Administration he was senior advisor for export controls. As Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce he was responsible for trade analysis and retaliatory actions. He also was head of the U.S. Delegation to the OECD Industry Committee in Paris.

Dr. Czinkota's academic work has focused on export development strategies and the linkage between terrorism and international business. He has written widely in leading journals on the topic and teaches a graduate seminar on International Terrorism and Marketing. He was named as one of the top three contributors to the international business literature. Among his 113 book titles are: Best Practices in International Marketing; Mastering Global Markets; and International Business.