Consultant
Dimensional Fund Advisors
An expert in international policy and economics, Marvin Zonis consults with foreign governments, is a regular media resource about public affairs, and is an acknowledged authority on the Middle East. A professor at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago, he is an enthralling speaker who has enlivened many of Dimensional's conferences with his observations about international markets. His research activities have focused on global political and economic development, quantifying political risk, emerging markets, Middle Eastern politics, Russian domestic politics and economics, US foreign policy, and US strategic relations. A frequent expert witness and consultant to the US Department of State's Policy Planning Council and the US National Security Council, Professor Zonis was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D., political science, 1968) and Yale University (A.B., politics and economics, 1958).