Paolo von Schirach

Paolo von Schirach was appointed President of the Global Policy Institute, GPI, in March 2016. He is also Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Bay Atlantic University, BAU, in Washington DC. He served as Department Chair for Political Science and IR at BAU from January 2018 until June 2023. His GPI research and BAU teaching focus on contemporary world politics and economics, international security, trade, development and energy issues.

Paolo von Schirach is the Founder and Editor of the Schirach Report, an online publication focusing on politics, economics and international security. He is a frequent lecturer, TV and radio commentator, on US foreign and domestic politics and global issues. For more than 25 years he worked in emerging markets as Team Leader and Senior Expert managing investment and trade promotion projects. Mr. von Schirach holds higher degrees from Georgetown University where he was also a Fulbright Scholar and Fellow in the Government Department, the London School of Economics, the University of Pisa, Italy, and the Scuola Universitaria Superiore Sant’Anna of Pisa. He was a Research Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, CSIS, which was followed by filling the role of Director of Communications, and later on Senior Research Fellow, at the Atlantic Council. He was Deputy Director of the Global Security Project at Georgetown University, and Vice President for International Programs at Intelx, an institution focusing on international education. More recently, he was an Adjunct Professor in the Graduate Program of the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, (MSFS). He has been a frequent lecturer at the Foreign Service Institute, (FSI), the U.S. Federal Government’s primary foreign affairs training institution.