Instructor

Dr. Liesl Anna Ridde

Dr. Liesl Riddle is an Assistant Professor of International Business and International Affairs at The George Washington University. She holds a BA and MA in Middle Eastern Studies, an MBA in Marketing/International Business, and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Riddle has written extensively on the topics of trade and investment promotion, international entrepreneurship, and diaspora roles in homeland economic development. Dr. Riddle’s regions of expertise include the Middle East and North and West Africa.  She has conducted fieldwork in Egypt and Turkey and among diaspora communities in the USA and Europe (Afghan, Armenian, Cuban, Ghanaian, Iranian, Lebanese, Liberian, and Palestinian communities).

Dr. Riddle is a member of the United Nations’ advisory panel regarding diaspora investment and entrepreneurship policies.  She has served as a consultant for several organizations, including the World Bank, the US Department of State, the Embassies of Afghanistan and Liberia, the Moroccan-American Trade and Investment Council, the Grameen Bank, IBM, and other private-sector clients.

Dr. Riddle has received several GW teaching awards, including the 2006 School of Business' Teaching Excellence Award.  She currently serves as the director for the GW Diaspora Research program within GW's Elliott School for International Affairs' Institute for Global Studies. She is also a faculty coordinator for GW's Center for International Business Education and Research (GW-CIBER) in the areas of Business & Society Issues and Careers in International Business. Dr. Riddle has received Best Reviewer Awards from the Academy of International Business and the Academy of Management.