David Marchick
Dean, Kogod School of Business
KSB | Finance & Personnel Administration
Bio
David Marchick serves as Dean of the Kogod School of Business at American University. In this role, he leads the school’s work to support more than 2,000 students and offer more than two dozen undergraduate and graduate degree and certification programs. He previously was an Adjunct Professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth University.
Since Marchick took on the role of Dean in August 2022, the Kogod School of Business has unveiled major initiatives in sustainability, AI and entrepreneurship; raised more than the previous 10 years combined; attracted its largest-ever first-year undergraduate class; and almost doubled the number of endowed chairs for the school.
Prior to joining Kogod, Marchick served as Chief Operating Officer of the United States Development Finance Corporation during the first year of the Biden Administration. As the Biden Administration’s senior appointee at the agency, he managed agency priorities, oversaw business operations and led the agency’s work to support manufacturing of more than 2 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the development world.
Before joining the Biden Administration, he served for 16 months in a volunteer capacity as Director of the Center for Presidential Transition at the non-profit Partnership for Public Service. Marchick spent 12 years at the Carlyle Group as Managing Director and as a Member of Carlyle’s Management Committee. He led Carlyle’s global regulatory and government affairs, communications and branding, events, research and sustainability functions, and had broad responsibility for engaging with Carlyle’s investors. He launched Carlyle’s sustainability initiatives and helped drive both the firm’s and the industry’s diversity efforts. Mr. Marchick was part of the core team to take Carlyle public and helped manage Carlyle’s public reporting and quarterly earnings reports. At Carlyle, he built strong relationships with organized labor, earning him the United Steelworkers “Solidarity and Appreciation Award” in 2013.
Prior to joining Carlyle, Marchick was a partner at and Vice Chair of the International Group at Covington, where his practice focused on international trade, CFIUS, transportation, and legislative matters.
Marchick served in the Clinton Administration for seven years, holding positions at the White House, Department of State, Department of Commerce and Office of the United States Trade Representative.
He has also served on numerous corporate and non-profit boards, including current governance roles at the Holocaust Memorial Museum; as co-Chair of the National Council of the National Park Foundation; for the Center for Global Development; and as a Trustee at Bates College, where his son attends school.
Marchick hosted the podcast Transition Lab and is the co-author of the book, The Peaceful Transition of Power: An Oral History of Presidential Transitions.
Marchick holds a law degree from the George Washington University, a master’s degree from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, and a BA from the University of California at San Diego.
