Education Born and raised in
Germany, Czinkota studied in
Austria,
Scotland,
Spain, and the
United States. In 1974, Czinkota graduated from the
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg with
Vordiplom Business Administration and Law as his major. Upon graduating from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, he was awarded a two-year
Fulbright Scholarship. Czinkota holds an
M.B.A. in
International Business and a
Ph. D in
International marketing and
Logistics from
The Ohio State University.
Academic career Since 1980, Czinkota has been a faculty of
marketing and
international business in
McDonough School of Business which is one of four undergraduate schools and one of five graduate schools at
Georgetown University. Czinkota has written several
International Business textbooks such as
International Business (8th Edition),
International Marketing (10th Edition),
The Global Marketing Imperative, and
Mastering Global Markets. His books have been translated into Spanish and Japanese. Since 2007, he has also been a professor (chair) at
Birmingham Business School,
University of Birmingham. Since 2009, Czinkota has kept a blog on international business. The content ranges from international jeopardy questions to more than 50 video communications in international business. The blog has been named as one of the 50 best blogs by business professors. Czinkota has also been cited as a top marketing professor on Twitter by social media magazine. In 2011, he received two significant honors in
Peru. He received a
Doctor Honoris Causa degree (his third) for his work in International Business and Marketing. Second, it was announced by the
Universidad Ricardo Palma that its new School of Global Marketing and Business is named after Czinkota. He also received the
Business Book Award from the American Library Association for "The Global Marketing Imperative".
Government Service While serving the
United States Department of Commerce, Czinkota supervised the Office of Trade and Investment Analysis, the Office of Industry Assessment, the Office of
Trade Finance, the Office of Program and Resource Management, and the Office of Industrial Trade. He was also the head of the U.S. Delegation to the
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, a representative to the
Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, and was a member of the coordinating committee for
Export Controls. He was responsible for Trade Forecasting, Export Control of Services, third-country Export Control Initiative, policy positions on International Financial and Monetary Affairs, as well as secretarial testimony on trade issues. His government publications include: "The Stat-USA Companion to International Marketing", "International Marketing and Accessibility", and "Agricultural Marketing: Export Opportunities for Wood Products in Japan Call for Customer Focus". Czinkota has testified 12 times before the US Congress. == Selected publications ==