Robert J Weiner

    Robert J. Weiner is professor of international business, public policy & public administration, and international affairs, at the George Washington University School of Business, Washington DC. He serves concurrently as Director of the Master of Science in International Business program.  He is a faculty director of the Business School’s CIBER (Center for International Business Education and Research), and an affiliate of the Elliott School of International Affairs’ Institute for International Economic Policy, Institute for Middle East Studies, Institute for Security and Conflict Studies, and Sigur Center for Asian Studies. He has been a member of the Editorial Board, Area Editor (Energy, Environment & Natural Resources), and Consulting Editor for the Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS), the top journal in the International Business field.

Prof. Weiner’s research interests and projects focus on economic, financial, and managerial aspects of energy, including resource nationalism & political risk; oil, transparency, & corruption; petroleum fiscal vulnerability; dynamics of energy crises; foreign investment; oil speculation and market turbulence; and privatization & the behavior of state-owned enterprises in the world petroleum market.

Prof. Weiner served as chairman of the GW Department of International Business 2001-2005 and 2013-2016, building its research-oriented faculty and national ranking; co-director of the Master of Science in Government Contracts (MSGC), a joint program of the GW Schools of Business and Law (2012-2020); and director of the Elliott School MA Program in International Trade and Investment Policy (ITIP) (2016-2018). He was the 2005-2006 Gilbert White Fellow at Resources for the Future. During 1997-1998, he was visiting professor of international economics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).  He has lectured to executives in Russia, Spain, and the United States, and taught at Harvard University, Brandeis University, and the Royal Complutense University (Spain), offering courses in finance, international business, industrial organization, and environmental and natural-resource economics.

Prof. Weiner has been research fellow in the International Energy Program, Center for Business and Government, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and consultant to Amoco; Mobil; Phillips; Texaco; the International Petroleum Exchange; the New York Mercantile Exchange; the U.S. Department of Energy; the U.S. International Trade Commission; the Harvard Institute for International Development; and the World Bank. He has won research awards from the Ministère des Affaires Internationales, Québec; Resources for the Future; the Columbia Center for the Study of Futures Markets; and the U.S. National Science Foundation. Prior to joining the professoriat, he worked as an energy and environment consultant at ICF Inc.