John P. DeBlasio is the Chairman DT Global and DT Institute which he founded in 2019 after the successful merger of Development Transformations and the international development arm of AECOM.

John is a 1989 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and served 21 years in active and reserve service, before retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves Civil Affairs branch in 2011. He holds degrees from the University of South Carolina Master of International Business Studies program and has completed studies at the School of Advanced Military Studies at Fort Leavenworth.

John currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Illinois Joining Forces Foundation, the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University, the Social Science Foundation (Korbel School of International Affairs at Denver University), Nuestros Pequenos Hermanos International (NPHI), and The Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East.