
09/17/2025
The Morning Dough Show is KPEO World Community Radio with host Dan Zuchegno. Tune in this Wednesday September 17th, 2025, at 8:30 a.m. Special Guest Paul R. Thomas
Paul R. Thomas is a Special Advisor to the Rector, Honorary Professor of Economics and Finance Ukrainian-American Concordia University Kyiv, Ukraine. Partner at IRE (Ukraine), LLC and Thomas & Simonova LLC.
He is an Honorary Professor and holds an Honorary Doctorate in Economics and Finance. On behalf of UACU he is responsible for supporting strategic development, including developing new academic programs and creating new business, scientific and academic relationships (see http://www.concordia.edu.ua for more information).
For 7 years Mr. Thomas was Vice President and President of the Economics Institute of the American Economic Association, located at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado, he was responsible for international business development and worked directly with a large number of foreign government ministries, banks, financial institutions and private businesses around the world.
As a Professor, he has designed academic programs and taught business and economics courses for UACU; the Economics Institute; the Colorado School of Mines at Golden, Colorado; Carnegie Mellon University in Beijing, China; the Ford Foundation in Vietnam, and various government ministries and companies. He has authored numerous publications in the fields of industrial economics and international valuation.
For 8 years as a Supervisory Economist at the United States Bureau of Mines, he was responsible for international strategic mineral analysis involving the evaluation of hundreds of international mining and processing enterprises around the world.