Edward R. Raupp

Dr. Edward Robert Raupp has had three careers, all involving international relations, and mostly in developing countries. An Army officer for 20 years, he travelled widely throughout Europe and the Pacific, with extended service in post-war Korea and wartime Vietnam. As an international business executive, he developed strategic partnerships in Asia, Europe, and Latin America. As a professor of business and economics at Waldorf College in Forest City, Iowa, he developed the semester in Oxford, England. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Independent University of Tanzania. He served for three-and-a-half years as a Peace Corps Volunteer at Gori State University in Georgia, and received from that university the degree of Doctor of Literature, honoris causa. He was awarded the degree of Doctor of Honour at Tskhinvali State University. Dr. Edward assisted in the founding of Georgian University of Social Sciences (now The University of Georgia), where he is the Chancellor. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics at The University of Georgia, M.A. in English Language and Literature at the University of Minnesota, M.B.A. at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and B.S. at Carnegie Mellon University. He is an author of 15 books and numerous articles.