Paul Dietrich is also a portfolio manager to a publicly traded mutual fund, the Foxhall Global Trends Fund.
He is an international corporate attorney and was formerly associated with two Washington, DC law firms, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, and Jones Day. As an attorney, he has been an advisor on privatization and economic development issues to the World Bank, as well as several governments in Asia, Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
Before entering the practice of law, he served as Publisher and Editor in Chief of Saturday Review, one of the United States’ oldest cultural magazines. He also served for four years as an elected State Representative (Republican from St. Louis County) in the Missouri General Assembly.
Mr. Dietrich has been a frequent contributor to the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the London Times, the International Herald Tribune, the Singapore Times and the South China Morning Post. From 1994 to 1997, he was editor of both the Reuters Emerging Markets Guide and the Reuters Asian Stock Sourcebook.
He is also President of the Institute for International Health and Development (founded in 1982 by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, David Morse). He has served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, was a member of the National Advisory Board of Harvard University’s School of Public Health’s AIDS Institute and a member of the Advisory Group on International Health Systems Assessment of the New York Academy of Sciences. He has been a member of the Advisory Board of the John Templeton Foundation. He has also served as a member of the Development Committee of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), and as a member of the Board of Directors of the U.S. Congressional Human Rights Foundation and the American-European Community Association. He is also the Editor of the award winning book, A Guide to American Foreign Policy (1982).