George Muñoz

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 Harvard Kennedy School in 1978. He received a Master of Laws in Taxation degree from DePaul University College of Law in 1984 and a Master of Arts in Theology in 2019.

Later, Muñoz taught MBA courses at Georgetown University.

Muñoz is licensed in several states as an attorney and Certified Public Accountant. He is a Certified Financial Planner and formerly served on the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards.

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 and one of its youngest presidents. He became a national advocate for school reform and drop-out prevention programs.

He was a partner at Mayer, Brown & Platt.

He served as a member of the Chicago Economic Development Commission.

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.

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