Robert J. Weiner

Robert J. Weiner is the director of the Master of Science in International Business program and a professor of international business, public policy and public administration, and international affairs at the George Washington University School of Business in Washington, D.C. He is a faculty director of the school’s 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 is an editor of the Journal of International Business Studies, the top journal in the international business field .

Prof. Weiner’s research interests and projects focus on energy security, including resource nationalism and political risk, oil and corruption, petroleum fiscal vulnerability, dynamics of energy crises, foreign investment in the Russian petroleum industry, oil speculation and market turbulence, and privatization and the behavior of state-owned enterprises in the world petroleum market. Past projects include examination of bribery in the UN Oil-for-Food Program in Iraq, and resource acquisitions by Chinese and Indian state oil companies. He has been awarded Tucker and Dean's Scholarships for publications in leading journals in accounting, economics, finance, international business, management, and strategy 

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, director of the Master of Arts in International Trade and Investment Policy program of the Elliott School of International Affairs, and as co-director of the Master of Science in Government Contracts, a joint program of the GW Schools of Business and Law. 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.

Prof. Weiner has advised U.S. government agencies, international institutions, energy consultancies, financial services providers, and oil companies. He testified before the U.S. Congress (Subcommittee on Agriculture, Energy, and Trade of the House Small Business Committee, 2011), and U.K. Parliament, Commons Treasury Select Committee, Panel on Regulation of Oil Markets (2008). He served as an eminent person on commodities for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (2003).