About the Author

• Author: David A. Steiger
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David A. Steiger is an attorney, author, and lecturer who has taught on

aspects of the global economy and various legal topics for fteen years.

Steiger was born in Gary, Indiana. His father, Norman, whose formal

education ended in the eighth grade to allow him to work on the family

farm, rose from the position of deckhand to ship Captain and ultimately

Ocean Pilot. His mother, Mary Ann, was a housewife and former ballroom

dance instructor. (“The most expensive dance lessons I ever had,” remarked

Norman, on how he met his future wife). Norman passed away after a

two-year bout with cancer in 1983 but not before giving his teenaged son

a coffee mug embossed with the word “Lawyer” on it—a statement of faith

that remains a most treasured possession.

Attending Indiana University at Bloomington, Steiger received a bachelor’s

degree in political science in 1987 and a Juris Doctor in 1990. After pass-

ing the Illinois Bar, he began his professional career as a litigation associate

with a Chicago-based law rm. By early 1999, Steiger left private practice

to manage complex products liability litigation for the American subsidiary

of a global insurance conglomerate.

Pursuing a long-held ambition to teach, Steiger then joined the Adjunct

Faculty of DePaul University’s School for New Learning. The success of

his debut course, “Global Capitalism,” led to an opportunity to moderate

a series of panel discussions on issues in globalization, featuring current

and retired Ambassadors to the United Nations. Steiger followed this up by

designing and teaching courses to cohorts of native students at the Inter-

national Bank of Asia in Hong Kong and St. Gabriel’s College in Bangkok,

Thailand.

Recognizing that the increasing number of small and medium sized busi-

nesses being pulled into the global economy had few resources to guide

them, Steiger set out in 2005 to create one for them. Over the next three

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