Director
pmfranko@colby.edu
(207) 859 5234
Patrice M. Franko is the Grossman Professor of Economics and Professor in the international studies program at Colby College where she teaches international finance, Latin American economic policy, and microeconomics. At Colby she has chaired the International Studies Program, the Economics Department, and East Asian Studies, and is also an active member of the Latin America Studies Program. Nationally, she has been a Pew Faculty Fellow in International Affairs, an American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow in International Security Affairs and lectures for EMIL, the executive masters program in logistics at Georgia Tech. She has served as a consultant for the Office of Inter-American Affairs in the Department of Defense, for the Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies at the National Defense University, and for the Office of International Affairs at the National Academy of Sciences. She currently serves on the boards of the Mid-Maine Global Forum, The AIDS Responsibility Project and the Global Studies Foundation.
She holds a Ph.D from the University of Notre Dame, and her many publications include The Puzzle of Latin American Economic Development 2nd edition, (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), Toward a New Security Architecture in the Americas: The Strategic Implications of the FTAA (CSIS Press, 2000), and The Brazilian Defense Industry (Westview, 1992). She is currently working on the third edition of her textbook , a book on the Transatlantic Economic Divide as well as a project on corporate social responsibility in Latin America.
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