In addition to earning his M.Sc. from the LSE, John holds graduate degrees from a number of colleges and universities, including Harvard University, and a doctorate from Teachers College, Columbia University. A recipient of several international research awards, John has lectured extensively throughout Europe, Canada, Africa and the United States.
John was a Research Scholar at Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty in Munich, Germany in the 1970s, where he authored studies on social, economic and political themes for radio broadcasts in Russian and other languages. He has been a professor of economics and an international consultant with clients such as American Airlines, Disney, and U.S. News and World Report. John further served as Director of International Education at the Russian Academy of Management in Moscow, and was founding Curator of the Sir Leonard Bertram Schapiro Collection at the British Library of Political and Economic Sciences.
Dr. Carfora is Co-Chair of I-Group – a National Academy of Sciences committee on international research collaborations – as well as a member of the Board of Directors of the Immersive Education Initiative, and a former member of the Board of Directors of the Alumni and Friends of the London School of Economics (1982-1990).
Dr. Carfora co-authored The Art of Funding and Implementing Ideas: A Guide to Proposal Development and Project Management (Sage, 2010), and wrote the Foreword to Universitas: The Social Restructuring of Higher Education in America (Praeger, 1998). He also co-authored a popular “vita” on the New Deal economist Stuart Chase (http://harvardmagazine.com/2004/09/stuart-chase.html), and is currently writing a book on Decision-Making and the Academic Presidency. Dr. Carfora was a Fulbright Scholar to Ireland in 2009, received the Distinguished Service Award from the National Council of University Research Administrators in 2007, and was an IREX Fellow to the former Soviet Union (USSR) in the 1980s.
John is Associate Vice President for Research Advancement and Compliance at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.
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