Delio
E. Gianturco
Adjunct
Professor
International Commerce and Policy
Masters Program
dgiantur@gmu.edu
703-993-3180
703-993-8215 fax
George Mason School of Public Policy
3401 Fairfax Drive - MS 3B1
Arlington, VA 22201
Education
MA, George Washington University, Washington, DC
BS, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
Biography
The
Hon. Delio E. Gianturco is a specialist in international
finance, trade development, foreign direct investment,
and microeconomics. His expertise includes foreign
economic policy, banking, insurance, credit issues, risk
evaluation and mitigation, management of multinational
enterprises, and small business development. He
teaches courses in International Commerce and Policy,
including the Introduction to ICP, International
Financial Institutions and Globalization, Microeconomics
and Trade, Finance and Investment, Project Finance,
and Country Risk Analysis.
Mr.
Gianturco is trained as a financial economist
and has worked as a Legislative Assistant for
U.S.Congressmen; as Senior vice president, Treasurer/Comptroller,
Executive Vice President, Director and Vice Chairman
at the Export-Import Bank of the U.S.; Senior Financial
Consultant at the World Bank; Governor of the Foreign
Credit Insurance Association. As President of First
Washington Associates, Ltd., Mr. Gianturco worked
on trade policy, finance and development projects
in 36 countries of North and South America, Europe,
Africa, Asia and Australia. He
also served as Director of the FWA Training Institute.
Mr.
Gianturco served in the U.S. government during
6 different Administrations and was a Presidential
appointee, confirmed by the Senate. He was
a member of the President’s Interagency Committee
on Export Expansion and the National Advisory Council
on International Monetary and Financial Policy. Mr.
Gianturco was Vice President of the International
Union of Export Credit and Investment Insurers
in London and a U.S. Delegate to the Organization
for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris. He
has authored and co-authored six books and several
hundred research reports, monographs, specialized
papers and multi-volume examinations of international
financial subjects. He was an Adjunct Professor
at Georgetown University before joining George
Mason University in 1995, and has been a guest
lecturer at other colleges, universities, professional
associations, and trade and finance conferences
in the U.S. and abroad.
Mr.
Gianturco serves as SPP's
Faculty/Alumni Liaison Officer.
In 2008 Mr. Gianturco was chosen SPP's outstanding
teacher of the year by the Alumni Chapter and was
given its Distinguished FAculty Award.
Areas
of Research
- International financial institutions
- Foreign trade policy
- International risk issues
- Finance in economic development
- Microeconomics of foreign trade and investment