Pew lecturer McCormick to explore
crisis, future of global economy

Dr. David McCormick, a business expert with firsthand knowledge of global financial market policy and the international response to the economic crisis, will examine “The Global Economy: How We Got Here and Where We are Headed” during the 2009-10 Grove City College J. Howard Pew Memorial Lecture. His presentation will be at 7 p.m. Oct. 27 in Sticht Lecture Hall in the Hall of Arts and Letters on campus.

McCormick has more than a decade of experience at senior levels of government, business and academia. From 2007 to 2009, he was under secretary for international affairs at the U.S. Treasury Department where he oversaw policies affecting global financial markets and led the international response to the crisis. Before joining Treasury, McCormick was deputy national security adviser for international economic policy and the president’s personal representative to the Group of Eight industrialized countries. He also served as under secretary of commerce for export administration where he oversaw policies affecting over $200 billion in annual high technology exports.

He is now a senior leader and member of the Management Committee at Bridgewater Associates, a global leader in institutional portfolio management with over $70 billion in assets under management. He has also served as the Distinguished Service Professor of Information Technology, Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University.

McCormick was president and CEO of FreeMarkets and president of Ariba, two publicly-traded software and services companies. He has also worked as a consultant for McKinsey & Company. McCormick received a mechanical engineering degree from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and a Ph.D. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He is a former U.S. Army officer and a veteran of the first Gulf War.

The Pew Memorial Lecture at Grove City College is in honor and memory of J. Howard Pew, renowned industrialist and College benefactor. A graduate of the Class of 1900, Pew was a member of the Grove City College Board of Trustees from 1912-1971 and served as its president for the last 40 of those years. The annual Pew lecture is funded through the generosity of alumni gifts. Its purpose is to bring to campus lecturers who share Pew’s love of faith and freedom.  

See more Grove City College news ...