Robert Dodge

I was born and raised in North Dakota and attended college at North Dakota State University. I graduated with honors in history and was awarded one of the twenty-two National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Post-Graduate Scholarships given nationwide to scholar-athletes. I began law school at the University of Minnesota the year graduate school deferments were ended. While waiting for my time in the army I transferred to history, then student taught.

Author and Dr. Thomas Schelling

After a brief period of military service, I became a history teacher, and remained in education until 2006 when I ended my career on full disability. Ten years teaching were spent in West Fargo, North Dakota. In 1979, my wife and I moved to London, where we taught for four years, then in 1983 to Singapore where we remained until June of 2014. Along the way, I earned a master’s degree in education, and took time off from teaching to attend Harvard, and earn a Master’s in Public Administration at the Kennedy School of Government. There I studied under Tom Schelling who became a friend and the subject of two of my first three books, as well as Nobel Prize winner in Economics in 2005.