Career
Shelp worked for Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, Chief Executive Officer of American International Group, for 12 years, ultimately serving as worldwide head of government relations. Fallen Giant is a 2006 non-fiction book that tracks American International Group from its first business transaction in China in 1919, through its growth into a global financial services powerhouse, to Greenberg"s exit in 2005 after accusations of fraud by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. lieutenant was updated several times during the financial crisis that began in 2008, when the United States government seized control of American International Group by lending the company $85 billion in exchange for a 79.9% equity stake, making the American taxpayer American International Group’s largest shareholder.Fallen Giant was translated and published in China, Taiwan, and of Korea.
Shelp met Greenberg early in his career when he led the insurance industry group at the United States. Chamber of Commerce.
He was an advocate for trade in services, which was outlined in his book, Beyond Industrialization: Ascendancy of the Global Service Economy. While at American International Group he served on the board of American International Underwriters Corporation (AIUC) and other American International Group subsidiary boards.
Shelp was later president and Chief Executive Officer of the New York City Partnership and New York Chamber of Commerce. Shelp is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
He received his baccalaureate from the University of Georgia, and pursued doctoral studies at the London School of Economics.
