Dr. Giacomo Santangelo is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics as well as the Director of the International Political Economy Program at Fordham University and a Term Professor at the Stillman School of Business at Seton Hall University. He is an economist with training in quantitative and qualitative research and analysis with more than 20 years of teaching experience at various Universities in the New York City area. Courses taught include Statistics & Statistical Decision-Making, Applied Econometrics, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, International Economics, Development Economics, Environmental Economics, Financial Economics, Money & Banking, Corporate Finance, Public Finance, Comparative Economic Systems, Economics at the Movies, and Sports Economics.A frequent media contributor, Professor Santangelo has been seen on NBC, CBS, & FoxNews, as well as in USNews and World Report, Forbes, Monster.com, and Fortune. In 2016, he gave a TEDx talk on the unifying theory of all Disney animated films and in 2020 published "Macroeconomics: Big Things Have Small Beginnings," a macroeconomics textbook geared toward the Global Business Honors class he taught at the Gabelli School of Business at Fordham. Professor Santangelo's research focuses on international economic growth, trade, and development.