Michael A. Genovese is President of the World Policy Institute at Loyola Marymount University. He also holds the Loyola Chair of Leadership Studies and directs the Institute of Leadership Studies at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California, USA. He has written over forty books and has won over a dozen university and national teaching awards, including the Fritz B. Burns Distinguished Teaching Award (1995) and the Rains Excellence in Research Award (2011).