Dr. Detomasi is a Professor & Distinguished Teaching Fellow of International Business. He completed his PhD from the Department of Political Studies at Queen's University in 1999, specializing in international political economy. He also holds a Master of Arts in War Studies from the Royal Military College of Canada, a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from Queen's University, and is a graduate of the Executive Program on the Global Financial System from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. 

Dr. Detomasi's research interests include globalization, geopolitics, and corporate and non-profit governance. His book, Profits, Power and Petroleum: Navigating the Economics, Politics, and Geopolitics of Oil, was published by the University of Toronto Press in 2022.

He teaches courses on strategy, governance, and the geopolitics of global competition in undergraduate, MBA, and executive education programs at the Smith School of Business and has taught programs in Canada, Europe, and the United Arab Emirates. He has served as Academic Director for Global Business, Queen’s Executive Development Centre. He as has also served for a five-year term as academic director for the Fundamentals of Governance Program, Queen’s Executive Development Centre, and has served as Vice-Chair of the Queen’s University Senate.   

His scholarly research has appeared in such journals as Journal of Business Ethics, International Studies Review, Global Governance, Defence Analysis, and the Canadian Review of American Studies, and he has authored numerous teaching cases and practitioner notes. Dr. Detomasi is also a regular contributor to the media: recent interviews he has given and opinion pieces he has written have appeared in The Toronto Star and The Globe and Mail, and on CBC’s Cross Country Checkup, and has contributed opinion pieces on the global economy to The Globe and Mail and PriceWaterhouseCoopers.