michael David Kaiser
Professor Kaiser teaches International and Foreign Policy Studies at WII.
He has been a leading voice for foreign aid reform in Washington, DC for more than 30 years. He has worked with U.S. government agencies, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the United Nations Department for Development Support and Management Sciences (UNDDSMS), the World Health Organization (WHO), foreign governments, Fortune 500 companies, private foundations, NGOs, civic organizations, and numerous colleges and universities worldwide.
Professor Kaiser’s specialty for the U.S. government included developing foreign interventions in “Especially Problematic Countries Where Nothing Else Worked.” Countries included the USSR, Ukraine, The Philippines, China, Japan, and South Africa, to mention only a few.
Career highlights include:
Becoming a Registered Foreign Agent in the USSR in the early 1990s for Moscow State University to organize a School of Government, a Business School, and a School of Public Affairs that had been prohibited under the Communist government;
Conducting counterintelligence in Ukraine for the U.S. Department of Energy when Ukraine had the third largest stockpile of nuclear weapons after the breakup of the Soviet Union;
Working on defense conversion issues in South Africa and China, which included reparations for indigenous tribes in South Africa that lost their lands under the repressive Apartheid regime; and
Working on Micronutrient Malnutrition issues as a Senior Fellow for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Ukraine, The Philippines, and Haiti.
Professor Kaiser has graduate degrees from Harvard University, The University of Alabama-Birmingham, and The University of Minnesota. His undergraduate degree was also from The University of Minnesota.
