Professor David Bruce specializes in international strategy, commercial diplomacy, trade policy and development, and executive education. He is a founder of the US-Latin America Trade Program (USLAT) at the Institute of International Business, Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University. Previously he served as the Director of International Program Development for the Ivan Allen College at Georgia Tech.

He was the Academic Director of the Regents. Global Center and Director of the International Business Council of the University System of Georgia. Before joining IBC he taught international relations and directed the International Management Division at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in California.

Dr. Bruce has served as the Chairman of the Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce of Georgia and President of the Georgia-Pernambuco (Brazil) Partners of the Americas. He was honored as a Knight of the Order of May by the Government of Argentina He studied at the University of Minnesota, the University of the Republic (Uruguay), and the University of Michigan and has conducted research in Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil, Peru, Venezuela, and the Dominican Republic. He has conducted executive programs in Japan, Hong Kong, France, Belgium, Germany, and the UK as well as in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Venezuela, Costa Rica, and Ecuador.