Distinguished Service Professor
Donahue Graduate School of Business
Duquesne University
Pittsburgh, PA 15282
Before joining Duquesne University in 1990, Burnham was staff director of the President's Council of Economic Advisors and Special Assistant to Chairman Murray Weidenbaum (1981-1982), U.S. Executive Director at the World Bank (1982-1985), and a staff member of the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C.
He has served in a variety of capacities at Mellon Bank (1971-81, 1985-88), including Senior Vice President and Manager, Global Treasury and Chairman of the Bank's Country Risk Committee. He has studied, worked and traveled to over 40 countries.
In the Spring 2005, Burnham was a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul conducting research on Turkish telecommunications development.
At Duquesne University he teaches courses in the MBA and finance departments.
Dr. Burnham is a graduate of Princeton University (AB, 1961), and Washington University (St. Louis) (Ph.D. Economics, 1970). He was a Fulbright Scholar in Brazil (1962). In 1989-1990 he was the John M. Olin Visiting Professor at the Center for the Study of American Business at Washington University, St. Louis.
