Michael Czinkota

Michael R. Czinkota (1951-2022) was an American international business and trade theorist and a longtime Professor at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University.

Czinkota is the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce in the United States Department of Commerce (1987-1989) and a former head of U.S. delegation for Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Industry Committee in Paris (1987-1989). From 1986-1987, Czinkota was a Senior Advisor for Export Controls in the U.S. Department of Commerce. Czinkota was awarded the Significant Contribution to Global Marketing award from the American Marketing Association in 2007.

Professor Czinkota was a prolific author of 140 academic papers, numerous books (including a well-known marketing textbook with his frequent collaborator, Professor Ilkka Ronkainen), and has written for newspapers such as ''The Washington Times'', ''The Korea Times'', Japan Today, Ovi Magazine, The Sri Lanka Guardian, and ''Handelsblatt''. Professor Michael Czinkota passed away on November 23, 2022 in Virginia. Provided by Wikipedia