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Dr. David Dunford

Title: Instructor
Office: Social Sciences Room 306
Phone: 520-621-3315
Office Hours: 2:00-4:00 Tuesday and 11:00-Noon Thursday (Fall 2008)
Email: ddunford@dakotacom.net
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David Dunford retired from the U.S. Foreign Service in June of 1995 following completion of his assignment as Ambassador to the Sultanate of Oman. He served from 1988-92 in Saudi Arabia as Deputy Ambassador, including 15 months as Acting Ambassador. His other Foreign Service assignments included Director of Egyptian Affairs in the Department of State in Washington, DC, Chief of the American Embassy Economic Section in Cairo, Egypt, and Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative in the Executive Office of the President. Early in his career, Dave also served in Helsinki, Finland and Quito, Ecuador. Before joining the Foreign Service, he worked briefly in Spain and Korea.

Ambassador Dunford is an Adjunct Instructor at the University of Arizona where he teaches courses on the Arab-Israeli Conflict, Middle East Business Environment and Globalization and Global Government. As Adjunct Professor at the American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird) from 1998-2000, he taught a course on the Regional Business Environment in the Middle East and North Africa. He is on the Governing Board of the University of Arizona’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies and a Board Member of the Tucson Committee on Foreign Relations. He is the current Chairman of the Board of the Association for International Practical Training (headquartered in Columbia, Maryland). He also has done some international business consulting. Consulting clients included two major U.S. oil companies, two major U.S. defense contractors, a major U.S. telecommunications company, a well-known policy research institution and a Wisconsin University.

During 1997-98, Ambassador Dunford was Coordinator of the Transition Team for the establishment of the Bank for Economic Cooperation and Development in the Middle East and North Africa (MENABANK). The Team offices were located in Cairo. From April to June of 2003, he worked for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad as Senior Ministerial Liaison to Iraq’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.