Theodore H. Moran

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.   

His most recent books include HARNESSING FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT FOR DEVELOPMENT: Policies for Developed and Developing Countries, Center for Global Development, 2006. DOES FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT PROMOTE DEVELOPMENT?, editor, with Magnus Blomstrom, Stockholm School of Economics and Edward Graham, Institute for International Economics, 2005; Beyond Sweatshops: Foreign Direct Investment, Globalization, and Developing Countries (Brookings, 2002); and Foreign Investment and Development (Institute for International Economics, 1998).  In 1993-94, Dr. Moran served as Senior Advisor for Economics on the Policy Planning Staff of the Department of State, where he had responsibility for trade, finance, technology, energy, and environmental issues.  He returned to Georgetown after the NAFTA and Uruguay Round negotiations.

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 Sciences.  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.

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