Email: clynch@ggu.edu

Christopher Lynch is a global business thought leader and founder of the International Business Accelerator (IBA). The IBA works with US companies to expand cross-border business as well foreign investors establishing operations in the US market. An economist by training, he was a career US Foreign Service Officer, dealing with economic and business policy issues in Washington DC and at five US Embassies in Europe and Latin America. His last post before retiring was as US Consul General in Hamburg. He is a senior adjunct professor of International Business at Golden Gate University and speaks fluent German and Spanish. He graduated from Georgetown University with a BS in Foreign Service and a MA in Economics from Virginia Tech.