Theodore H. Moran

Non-Resident Fellow
morant@georgetown.edu

Expertise

Foreign Direct Investment, Investment component of the Commitment to Development Index

Research Topics

Education

Ph.D Harvard University

Background

Theodore H. Moran holds the Marcus Wallenberg Chair at the School of Foreign Service in Georgetown University. He is the founder of the Landegger Program in International Business Diplomacy at the university and serves as director there. He is on the executive council of the McDonough School of Business at the university. His most recent books include Beyond Sweatshops: Foreign Direct Investment, Globalization, and Developing Countries (Brookings Institution, 2002), Parental Supervision: The New Paradigm for Foreign Direct Investment and Development (2001), and Foreign Investment and Development (1998). In 1993–94, he was senior adviser for economics on the Policy Planning Staff of the Department of State. He returned to Georgetown University after the NAFTA and Uruguay Round negotiations. He is a consultant to the United Nations, governments in Asia and Latin America, and international business and financial communities. In 2000, he was appointed counselor to the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) of the World Bank Group. In 2002, he was chairman of the Committee on Monitoring International Labor Standards of the National Academy of Sciences.