U.S Department of State, Fulbright Specialist, Visiting Professor at Fatima Jinnah Women’s University, Faculty of Law, Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

Jo D. Chitlik is currently a U.S Department of State, Fulbright Specialist (2020), a managing partner at Chitlik & Chitlik LLC (2017) and the Director of GLO Ltd. (2024). Chitlik is a licensed international attorney, who previously worked in the Ministry of Justice in the Republic of Georgia in the Office of International Arbitration. She went on to serve at the U.S. Department of State as a Senior Investment Policy Specialist (TS/SCI) under Secretary John Kerry, overseeing the Western Hemisphere and Near Eastern Affairs portfolio in the areas of investment and trade. She represented the State Department in the Committee of Foreign Investment in the Unites States (CFIUS) in matters dealing with national security. She headed the taskforce that prepared the annual 527 Expropriation Claim Report for the U.S. Congress. Chitlik is credited with creating an innovative management system for the production of the Department’s annual Investment Climate Statements. She represented the U.S. mission to the United Nations, as lead negotiator to UNGA in trade and development. She ended her tenure at the State Department with the drafting of a memorandum of understanding between the Department, the United Nations and the Global Entrepreneurship Network, which aimed to improve the financial well-being of 1.8 billion vulnerable people worldwide.

Between 2014 to 2016, she received three State Department Meritorious Awards, one Superior Award and was distinguished as a Franklin Fellow for her work. In 2023, she received the Eleonore Raoul Trailblazer Award from Emory School of Law.

Chitlik has lectured at Emory Law School. She has taught at the Foreign Service Institute (FSI), the federal government’s primary training institution for members of the U.S foreign service. She was a visiting scholar at American University Washington College of Law, at the Center on International Commercial Arbitration. She has taught human rights and comparative law at Universidad de La Sabana, in Bogota, Colombia. She currently teaches ADR at Fatima Jinnah Women’s University in Pakistan.

From 2015-2020, Chitlik presided as arbitrator at American University, Center on International Commercial Arbitration, LL.M International Commercial & Investment Arbitration Moot Competition.

Chitlik speaks three languages: Spanish, English and Italian. She holds a bachelor’s and juris doctorate in Law with honors from Universidad Autonoma de Centro America, doctorate in world religions from Vision International University with honors, a master’s in law from Emory University. She also holds Green and Black Belt Six Sigma designations from Georgia Institute of Technology. Chitlik is a Registered Neutral with the State of Georgia Office of Dispute Resolution.

Together with her Emory graduate team, they created the Fulbright ADR Pilot Program under the affiliate www.Globalleaningonline.com. A program uniquely designed to meet the legal, cultural & religious needs of Pakistani law students in the field of ADR.