John R. McIntyre

John R. McIntyre was a professor of international management at the Scheller College of Business with a joint appointment in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs , Georgia Institute of Technology. He was the founding executive director of the Georgia Tech Center for International Business Education & Research (GT CIBER), a national center of excellence, established in 1993 and competitively funded every four years.

Son of an American career military father and a French mother, he was educated in Catholic boarding schools in Bordeaux and Paris, France, completing his high school education in Memphis, TN. He received his undergraduate education at Jacksonville University, FL and pursued graduate studies at Strasbourg, McGill, Northeastern Universities, obtaining his PhD at The University of Georgia. At UGA, he was a Research Associate and Fellow of the newly created Dean Rusk Center for International Law, working closely with the Hon. Dean Rusk, former Secretary of State, who was on his doctoral dissertation committee. After a doctoral dissertation on U.S. dual-use technology export controls, he joined Georgia Tech‘s then new graduate Technology and Science Policy Program. His career evolved on the management and business policy path where the bulk of his work remained focused.

John was fond of mentioning his ability to combine his achievements at the two rival state schools, for both of which he had a deep affection. In life, he strived to combine the best attributes of two great countries he knew intimately: the United States and France. As a professor, he sought to blend multidisciplinary streams of expertise ranging from government institutions to business practices in the international economic arena. This was reflected in his teaching, at all levels, his research work and in numerous business outreach training programs devoted to bringing Georgia and the Southeast economy to the attention of a complex world. And in the creation of new programs such as the Georgia Tech Global EMBA in 1998.

Author, co-author of seventeen published books on topics ranging from national security and technology transfer, to innovation in business education in emerging markets, to the place of multinational enterprises in sustainability policy, he was ceaseless in expressing himself over 140 articles, book chapters, editorials in professional and business journals. Proudest when he could be supportive in extending funds to the path-breaking research of faculty colleagues through the Center he led and, particularly, in mentoring generations of students, establishing the student-run GT AIESEC chapter (students in international business and economics) in 1987, still extant, acting as faculty advisor and supporter of the Georgia Tech Fulbright Student Association, inspiring job searches, and remaining in contact with many alumni. John loved competing for national grants to internationalize the reach of his home university and pursuing new research frontiers. His Center cast a broad national network with fifteen similar national centers and with some thirty international business school partners.

His work did not stop at the door of the academic world. He was a regular correspondent for periodicals such as Politique Internationale and Entreprendre à l’ International (Paris) and frequently called on to comment on the US economy with Radio-Canada. He was a co-founder of not-for-profit research associations, such as the Multinational Enterprise and Sustainable Development (MESD), partnering with the University of Lorraine, France, the ChinaGoesGlobal Association, established with colleagues in the state of Florida, to probe the contours of the Chinese economic phenomenon, the USA India Business Summit, in Atlanta, Georgia, to encourage more bilateral trade and investment, among others. As he witnessed the internationalization of wide segments of the Georgia and Southeastern economies, he sought a more applied involvement by joining early on the Southeast US International Trade Advisors of France (CCE) and its global corporate network, becoming the chair of the organization’s regional C-level committee for several years, among other groups, and actively participated in the Atlanta World Trade Center, in its heyday. John found time to serve as a management consultant with several advisory groups to sharpen his skills as researcher: RL Cavallere Ltd (London and Paris), Bossard USA (Atlanta, New York), GeanOverseas (Atlanta).

His work was recognized in various ways. In 2009, he received the State of Georgia Governor’s Commendation for International Education, for many years of business educational services to Georgia. In 2009, the President of France bestowed on him the National Order of Merit for his work in promoting Franco-American direct investment. In 2015, he received the Steven A. Denning Faculty Award for Global Engagement from the Georgia Institute of Technology. In 2015, he received a Global Impact finalist Award from the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce. In 2017, he was made an honorary professor of the ICN Graduate Business School, University of Lorraine, in eastern France. In 2024, he was was awarded, in Paris, at the annual General Assembly of the International Trade Advisors of France, the CCE annual Medal of Honor, in a network of some 4,800 C-level international business executives. Recognizing his work on India’s economy, he received, in 2024, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the US India Business Summit. He dedicated over three decades to promote America’s long-term competitiveness by ensuring that graduates of US institutions of higher education in business-related disciplines developed the skills to compete in global markets.

A member of several academic and professional associations, he was, above all, a devoted servant leader, presiding for many years the board of The Lindbergh Condominiums Association Inc. community. Ever the multidisciplinarian, passionate about philosophy, history, and French culture, he relished pondering Pascal’s wager in discussions about the future. He was thankful for the opportunity to have lived and worked in some of his favorite cities, Paris, London, Montreal, and Atlanta, leveraging his parents’ tours of duty, Naples, Italy, with which he fell in love.

Most of all, he was grateful to his devoted parents Timothy F. McIntyre, USN, and Simone Marie McIntyre for whom he remained continuously supportive , throughout their many journeys. He is survived by his faithful life-time partner, John J. Nix, a gifted Georgia painter, always at his side.

Burial will be at 2 o'clock on Thursday, April 2, 2026 at Arlington Memorial Park, Sandy Springs, Georgia, near his parents, in the St. John Vianney section.