PERSONAL BIO
Dr. Julian Gaspar, Director
Center for International Business Studies &
Clinical Professor of Finance
Mays Business School
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas 77843-4116
Dr. Julian Gaspar is the Director of the Center for International Business Studies at Mays Business School in Texas A&M University, where he is responsible for internationalizing the business school's curriculum, students and faculty. He is the director of Texas A&M University's Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) program, which is funded by the U.S. Department of Education. He is also a professor with the Department of Finance and teaches international finance (FINC445 and FINC 645). Dr. Gaspar has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Madras in India, a MBA from Indiana University-Bloomington, and a Ph.D. in International and Monetary Economics from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Dr. Gaspar has been with Mays Business School since 1991.
Prior to joining TAMU, Dr. Gaspar was an International Economist with the World Bank in Washington D.C. for four years. His responsibilities included financial and industrial restructuring of developing and transition economies of Central Europe and the Middle East. He has extensive experience in international project economic and financial analysis having worked for the International Finance Corporation (World Bank) as well as a consultant with the U.S. Department of State. Dr. Gaspar also has extensive corporate experience having worked as an international economist with the Bank of America in Tokyo and in San Francisco for seven years, where he conducted country risk analysis and researched and analyzed debt problems of developing countries. Dr. Gaspar devised financial restructuring strategies for Bank of America associated with the Philippines debt crisis in 1985.
Dr. Gaspar has traveled/worked in over 50 countries covering all continents. His regional expertise covers Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Central Asian Republics, Europe and Latin America. As a consultant with the U.S. Department of State, he designed and helped set up the first modern graduate business school in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Dr. Gaspar developed six Russian business cases along with a team of his TAMU colleagues. Dr. Gaspar is the lead author of two text books, "Introduction to Business (2006)" and "Introduction to Global Business (2013)" with Mays Business School professors.