Gary K. Bertsch
University Professor of International Affairs

Gary K. Bertsch is a University Professor of Public and International Affairs (for "highest recognition of significant impact on the University of Georgia") and Founder and Director of the Center for International Trade and Security. Professor Bertsch is involved in a number of research, teaching and outreach initiatives intended to promote trade, security and better international relations world-wide. He has secured over $10 million dollars in external funding to UGA in recent years to support these efforts.

Professor Bertsch has been engaged in teaching, research, and service at the University of Georgia since 1969.  He has received numerous teaching awards, including the University's Pi Sigma Alpha Teacher of the Year Award.  He has served as a Fulbright Professor in England and an IREX (International Research and Exchanges Board) Professor in the former Yugoslavia.  He is listed in several issues of Who’s Who, including Who’s Who in America. He served on the Board of Trustees of The University of Georgia Foundation 1994-2004 and on the Board of Directors of The University of Georgia Research Foundation, 1987-97. He is a member of the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations.  He is also co-founder and co-director of the Delta Prize for Global Understanding, an annual University award (presented to President Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, President Mikhail Gorbachev, UN High Commissioner Sadako Ogata, and Vaclav Havel, former President of the Czech Republic).

Professor Bertsch’s research focuses on trade, technology, and strategic issues.  He directs projects on national and international security projects worldwide. He has authored or edited over 20 books, including:  Dangerous Weapons, Desperate States: Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine (Routledge, 1999); Engaging India: US Strategic Relations with the World’s Largest Democracy (Routledge, 1999); and International Cooperation on Nonproliferation Export Controls (University of Michigan Press, 1994). Professor Bertsch testifies before Congress regularly and is active in a number of projects intended to contribute to new trade and security policies for the 21st century. He and his wife Joan reside in Athens, Georgia and have three children with families living in Washington, DC and Atlanta, GA.