Gary K. Bertsch is the University Professor of Public and International Affairs (awarded 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 and members of the Center are involved in a number of research, teaching and outreach initiatives intended to promote trade, security and better international relations world-wide.

Professor Bertsch has been involved 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 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, and is listed in several Who's Who, including Who's Who in America. He is also co-founder and co-director of the Delta Prize for Global Understanding, an annual award (presented in recent years to Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter, Desmond Tutu, Mikhail Gorbachev, Sadako Ogata, Vaclav Havel, Gertrude Mongella, Ted Turner and Nelson Mandela).

Professor Bertsch's research focuses on trade, technology, and strategic issues. He directs projects on nonproliferation and export controls on a global scale. 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 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.

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