Gary Weaver, Ph.D.    Executive Director, IMI                   For thirty-four years Gary Weaver has been a member of the faculty of the School of International Service at American University. In 1999, he founded and now serves as Executive Director of the Intercultural Management Institute. He has created and directed various academic programs at American, including the Seminar on Managing a Multicultural Workforce and has also taught courses on multicultural management for the National Training Laboratory (NTL), American University graduate program. Each year he gives over 100 keynote addresses, lectures, training seminars, and workshops to various universities, nonprofit groups, government agencies, professional organizations and business groups in the U.S. and abroad. His topics range from culture shock and cross-cultural negotiation to conflict resolution and diversity. Professor Weaver received his Ph.D. in International Relations from American University with studies at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and the Psychoanalytic Institute of Mexico and post-doctoral studies at The Washington School of Psychiatry. He has published widely in the field of international and intercultural communication. (Follow this link to return to the FACULTY/TRAINERS page.)