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MARVIN ZONIS
Subjects
national economics, politics, global business
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Marvin Zonis is a Professor at the Graduate School of
Business at the University of Chicago. He also heads Marvin Zonis +
Associates, a political risk consulting firm in Chicago, and is a
co-founder and Chairman of DSD, a software development company based
in Moscow and Chicago.
At Chicago’s Business School, Zonis teaches courses on
International Political Economy, Leadership, and
E-Commerce. He was the first professor at the Business School to
teach a course on the effects of digital technologies on global
business. As the head of Marvin Zonis + Associates, Zonis consults
to corporations and professional asset management firms throughout
the world, helping them to identify, assess, and manage their
political risks in the changing global environment. Zonis is a
member of the Board of Directors of CNA Financial, the global
insurance and financial services firm, is on the Board of Advisors
of Syntek, a European Private Equity Venture Capital Firm focusing
on TMT (telecom, media and technology), serves on the Board of the
Institute for Psychoanalysis and is a Fellow of DiamondCluster
International, a global technology consulting firm. He is also a
member of the U.S. Comptroller General’s Board of Advisers.
What unites these
activities is Zonis’ unique awareness of the intersections of
politics, economics, and emergent technologies. He argues that
accelerating technological developments drive globalization both
economically and politically. And in the face of these global
challenges, business leadership, and a true understanding of what
defines leadership, is more essential than ever.
Zonis has written extensively on the intersection of digital
technologies and globalization, emerging markets, Middle Eastern
politics, the oil industry, Russia, and U.S. foreign policy. He is
also a leading authority on Middle Eastern politics, and has spent
the last 40 years studying the volatile mix of Islam, terrorism, and
the Middle East. He is the former director of the Center for Middle
Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago. He has lived in Iran,
hitchhiked through Afghanistan in the sixties, and has traveled
extensively throughout other parts of the region, as well.
His writings have been published, among others, in The Financial
Times, The New York Times, The International Herald
Tribune, Chief Executive Magazine, La Vanguardia,
The Boston Globe, and the Japanese journal Nikkei Weekly.
His books include The Eastern European Opportunity, Majestic
Failure: The Fall of the Shah, Khomeini And The Islamic Republic of
Iran, The Political Elite of Iran. Marvin Zonis’ latest book,
Why The Kimchi Matters: Global Business and Local Realities in a
Crisis-Driven World (Agate), will be published in October 2003.
Zonis has appeared on numerous network television news programs,
including Nightline, and CNN's Larry King Live, and is interviewed
regularly on National Public Radio. He has been Middle East
Consultant to ABC/Capital Cities television and is currently
International Analyst for WBBM-TV, Chicago.
He was educated at Yale University, the Harvard Business School, the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received a Ph.D. in
Political Science, and the Institute for Psychoanalysis, Chicago,
where he received psychoanalytic training.
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