George Muñoz

Muñoz is co-author of the book Renewing the American Dream: A Citizen's Guide For Restoring Our Competitive Advantage (2010, IMC Publishing). The book discusses what America needs to do to keep its global competitive advantage and how the next 10 years (2010–2020) will determine if the United States retains its global leadership position in this 21st century.

Muñoz was appointed to the President's Commission on White House Fellows by President Barack Obama in 2009.

Muñoz currently resides in McLean, Virginia. He has a wife, Kathy, and two twin sons, Mario and Manuel (b. 2002).

Muñoz was an assistant secretary and chief financial officer of the United States Department of the Treasury from 1993 to 1997. He was the president and CEO of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) from 1997 to 2001. OPIC, "the federal government's export promotion arm," provides political risk insurance, financing and private equity funds to US private sector investments in developing countries. When OPIC's future was in danger of not being reauthorized by the US Congress, Munoz is credited with turning things around for the agency and received bi-partisan support for its continuation as the primary agency for assisting private sector investments in the Emerging Market Countries.

In February 1984, Chicago mayor Harold Washington appointed Muñoz to the Chicago Board of Education. Three months later, in May 1984, Muñoz was elected by the board as its president. He served three one-year terms as president. In May 1987, he announced that he would not be seeking an additional term as president. He was the first hispanic person to head the board. He was one of the youngest people to ever serve as the board's president. He became a national advocate for school reform and drop-out prevention programs.

Muñoz earned his BBA degree in Accounting at the University of Texas at Austin (Business Honors Program 1974). He received a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School and a Master of Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School in 1978. He received a Master of Laws in Taxation degree from DePaul University College of Law in 1984; and earned a Master of Arts (in Theology) in 2019.