Llewellyn Howell

Dr. Howell is Emeritus Professor of International Management at Thunderbird School of Global Management at ASU. He is also Associate Emeritus Professor at Arizona State University. Since 1991 he has been the International Affairs Editor of USA Today, The Magazine of the American Scene, published by the Society for the Advancement of Education. He has worked for more than fifty years in the fields of foreign policy and international rela-tions. He began as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Malaya (1963-65), and has worked at assignments at the Department of State (INR/SEA), the Foreign Service Institute, the Department of De-fense (OSD/PAE), the Malaysian Prime Minister’s Office (IN-TAN and IDFR), Singapore Technologies, and Third Point Sys-tems, a private defense contractor. Dr. Howell is currently Senior Adviser Emeritus for Methodology for The PRS Group, Inc., a political risk consulting firm, and has worked in various capaci-ties with PRS since 1979. He has taught primarily at three institutions: the University of Hawaii at Manoa and Hilo, The American University in Washington, D.C., and Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale, Arizona. Dr. Howell has taught in the areas of political risk assessment, Southeast Asian and North American history, cultures, and politics, American foreign policy, and research and analytical methodology. He was Director of the University of Hawaii’s Executive MBA Program in Hanoi, Vietnam (2001-2003). He has been a Fulbright Scholar to Malaysia (civil service training at The National Institute of Public Administration in Kuala Lumpur) and India (a course on American Foreign Policy at the American Studies Center in Hyderabad). He spent his last sabbatical year (1999-2000) at Harvard University as a PONSACS Associate Faculty Fellow working on a book on political risk and another on American foreign policy. Dr. How-ell is author/editor of The Handbook of Country and Political Risk Analysis, now in its 5th edition (2013), Political Risk As-sessment: Concept, Method, and Management (2nd edition, 2008), The North American Business Environment (2010), and ten other books and monographs. He has more than 225 book chapters, professional journal articles, magazine, and newspaper publications. Dr. Howell is currently at work on two books, Troubled Waters: U.S. Foreign Policy at the End of the American Century and Race, Culture, and Foreign Policy: A Malaysia Case Study. He speaks professionally on a range of topics including political risk, U.S. foreign policy, political violence, sea piracy, ethnicity and race relations, and American politics. His PhD. in Political Science and International Relations is from Syracuse University’s Maxwell School (1973). Dr. Howell has been a police volunteer with the Glendale AZ Police Department’s Volunteers in Police Service program since 2006. He is currently studying memoir and short story writing at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California. He resides, with his wife Susana, in Glendale, Arizona and Honolulu, Hawaii and commutes globally. Address: Glendale, Arizona, United States.

Education

• PhD. Syracuse University (1968 — 1973)

Companies

• Professor, Writer, Essayist, and Editor Llewellyn D. Howell (1991)
• Emeritus Professor of International Management Thunderbird School of Global Management
• Professor of International Relations The American University, School of International Service (1974 — 1991)