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Charles Edward Kiamie, III

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Charles Edward Kiamie, III

Professorial Lecturer

Part-time Faculty


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An Elliott School alumnus, Charles E. Kiamie, III is Assistant Dean for Custom Executive Education at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business. He previously spent 18 years in the federal government, where he directed the U.S. Agency for International Development's (USAID) Office of Development Cooperation, Center for Education, and Office of Local Sustainability - and served in Middle East-focused positions at both USAID and the U.S. Department of State. He has concurrently taught comparative politics and Middle Eastern Studies courses at The George Washington University for more than 20 years. Earlier in his career, Dr. Kiamie worked for Lockheed Martin Information Technology and taught at Georgetown and Pepperdine. He has lived and worked in nearly all countries in the Middle East and North Africa and has a particular interest in the Levant. Dr. Kiamie was a Fulbright Fellow in Jordan and read Modern Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford.


Political reform, nation-building, (de)liberalization, democratization, political re-traditionalization, the Arab world, Islamism, diplomacy and development, locally led development, co-creation, federal procurement innovation, organizational leadership, coaching and mentoring.

Ph.D., Government, Georgetown University; M.A., Arab Studies, Georgetown University; B.A., Middle Eastern Studies, The George Washington University

Politics and Cultures in the Middle East (WID), Arab Politics (WID), Comparative Politics - Middle East (graduate and undergraduate)