Margaret K. McMillion, Coordinator

A former senior American diplomat whose  32-year career in the Department of State included assignments as the U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Rwanda and Deputy Commandant for International Affairs at the U.S. Army War College. She also served in Taiwan, South Africa, Thailand and Laos.  She teaches War and Diplomacy, U.S. Foreign Policy, Comparative Foreign Policy, Humanitarian Issues in International Affairs, and International Organizations.

Ricardo Lucio Ortiz

Ph.D. candidate at the University of Western Australia. His research interest is the southern conflict in Thailand. A specialist in Southeast Asian studies, he has also taught at Bangkok University and been guest lecturer at Chulalongkorn University, and Thammasat University. As coordinator of the undergraduate program, he develops special programs for the Bangkok Center.

Dr. Max Iacono

Dr. Max Iacono holds a joint appointment in the Master of Arts in International Relations and the Master of Business Administration programs.  He recently retired from the International Labor Organization of the United Nations (ILO) where his most recent post had been Senior Specialist and Regional Advisor for the Southeast Asia Region in the area of Enterprise Development.   In that post, Dr. Iacono developed and supervised projects and programs in local economic development, small enterprise development, and corporate social responsibility in the Mekong region countries, China, and Mongolia.  Prior to joining the ILO, Dr. Iacono worked at the World Bank in Washington, D.C. in the areas of institutional development, governance and civil service reform, public sector reform and private sector development in Africa and Latin America.   Dr. Iacono has a Ph.D. degree in organizational psychology from the University of Michigan and an undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At Webster, he teaches courses on globalization, migration, and organizational behavior.