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Dex

Burns

Thought Leader, Representative
Leadership in International Business &
Foreign Policy

Meet Dex!

Dex Mandela Burns is a doctoral candidate in the Human and
Organizational Learning program at the George Washington
University
. His research interests focus on representative
leadership within public and private organizations engaged in
international affairs. He is Co-Founder and President of the
Council on Representative Leadership Abroad (CORLA), a
Washington DC-based 501(c)3 charitable organization that
works to promote student inquiry into international business and
foreign policy careers.

Qualifications

Council on Representative Leadership Abroad

Elliott School of International Affairs

Chicago Council on Global Affairs

U.S. International Trade Commission

Center for Strategic & International Studies

The National Institutes of Health

World Affairs Council of Central Illinois

Illinois Global Institute



Organizations

Ed.D. Human & Organizational Learning

The George Washington University

In Progress

Education

M.A. Latin American Studies

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

B.A. Global Studies

University of Illinois at Springfield

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Dburns46@gwu.edu

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