Donald G. Fell

Donald Fell serves as director of the Foundation for Teaching Economics teacher programs: The Institute on The Environment and The Economy and The Right Start Institute. At the University of South Florida, Don served as a member of the Executive MBA and Professional MBA faculty, director of executive and professional education and senior fellow for the Institute for Public Policy and Leadership.

Don has taught numerous undergraduate courses, including principles of macroeconomics, microeconomics, labor relations, and money and banking. At the graduate level, he has taught public administration, global and managerial economics, and the business of medicine. He is a member of FTE’s faculty and is past president of the National Association for Economic Educators. He has taught at Ohio State University, the University of South Florida, Illinois State University, and La Rochelle University Business School in La Rochelle, France.

Prior to his current work in economics, Don worked as a manufacturing, engineering and economic consultant for Sundstrand Corporation; a lecturer at the University of Costa Rica; a program consultant for the New York City-based National Council on Economic Education; a consultant for PERC; and as strategy consultant for a variety of law firms, orchestras and nonprofits. He is a founding and current board member of TrXade Health, Inc. (not Scienture, Inc. NASDAQ: SCNX), Integrated Wellness Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: WEL), PowerUp Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: PWUP), and past board member of Semper Paratus Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: TVGN), Aesther Healthcare (NASDAQ: OCEA), Kernel Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: KRNL), and Fiona, an India-based water purification manufacturing company.

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