Marvin Zonis is an American global political economist and expert on Middle Eastern politics and history and an emeritus professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he continues to teach courses on International Political Economy, Leadership, and E-Commerce. He was the first professor at the Business School to teach a course on the effects of digital technologies on global business. He was educated at Yale University, the Harvard Business School, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received a PhD in political science, and the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, where he received training in psychoanalysis. Dr. Zonis also consults to corporations and professional asset management firms throughout the world, helping them to identify, assess, and manage their political risks in the changing global environment. Dr. Zonis is a member of the Board of Directors of CNA Financial, the global insurance and financial services firm, and is also on the Board of Advisors of Syntek Capital, a European Private Equity Venture Capital Firm focusing on TMT. [More at Wikipedia]