EVENTS

Date:	Friday, February 20, 2009
Time:	8:30 AM -- 11:15 AM
Location:	Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036

Grant Aldonas is a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Previously, Mr. Aldonas was affiliated with the law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, where his practice focused on international trade, investment, corporate governance, and corporate social responsibility. He is also the principal managing director of Split Rock International. He formerly served as the under secretary of commerce for international trade in the U.S. Department of Commerce and as the chief international trade counsel to the majority in the Senate Committee on Finance. He was responsible for granting extensions of trade negotiations, implementing trade agreements—including preferential trade arrangements such as the Generalized System of Preferences and the Caribbean Basin Initiative—and enforcing U.S. trade and customs laws. Prior to this, Mr. Aldonas was a partner with Miller & Chevalier, specializing in tax, international trade, investment, and litigation. He also served concurrently as counsel to the bipartisan Commission on U.S.-Pacific Trade and Investment Policy. Previously, he chaired the American Bar Association (ABA) Task Force on Multilateral Investment Agreements and was the vice chair of the ABA International Section’s Trade Committee and its Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.

Claude Barfield is a resident scholar at AEI. He is the author or editor of a number of books on trade and science policy, including Free Trade, Sovereignty, Democracy: The Future of the World Trade Organization (AEI Press, 2001). In 1999, he coauthored Tiger by the Tail: China and the World Trade Organization (AEI Press) with Mark Groombridge. Mr. Barfield is working with Andrei Zlate on the forthcoming AEI Press book The Eagle and the Dragon: The United States, China, and the Rise of Asian Regionalism. Before coming to AEI, he served in the Gerald R. Ford administration on the staff of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee and as a co–staff director of the President’s Commission for a National Agenda for the Eighties.

Marc Busch is the Karl F. Landegger Professor of International Business Diplomacy at the School of Foreign Service and associate professor in the government department at Georgetown University. His research and teaching focus on international trade policy and law. He is the author of Trade Warriors (Cambridge University Press, 1999) and various edited volumes. His articles have appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, the American Journal of Sociology, the British Journal of Political Science, the Fordham International Law Journal, International Organization, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, the Journal of World Trade, and World Politics. He was previously an associate professor at the Queen’s School of Business and, prior to that, an associate professor of government and social studies at Harvard University, where he was also the director of graduate student programs at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. He has been awarded research grants from the National Science Foundation, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Harvard University, the John M. Olin Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Center for Social Sciences at Columbia University, and the Institute for the Study of World Politics, among others. He is coeditor of the journal Economics & Politics.

Kenneth Dam is a member of the board of the Brookings Institution and serves as a senior fellow in the economic studies department. He is also a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School. A former deputy secretary in the U.S. Departments of Treasury and State, Mr. Dam focuses on economic and U.S. foreign policy, national security, and science and technology. His publications include a number of books, most notably The GATT: Law and International Economic Organization (University of Chicago Press, 1970); Economic Policy Beyond the Headlines (University of Chicago Press, 1998), with George P. Shultz; and The Law-Growth Nexus: The Rule of Law and Economic Development (Brookings Institution Press, 2006). Mr. Dam is a board member of the Committee for Economic Development, a member of the Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee, and a member of the National Acadamies’ Science, Technology, and Law Panel. He was chairman of the German-American Academic Council and a board member of a number of nonprofit institutions, including the Council on Foreign Relations and the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations.

Anne Krueger is a professor of international economics at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, a distinguished fellow and past president of the American Economic Association, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. She also served as first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund from September 1, 2001, to August 31, 2006. Previously, Ms. Krueger was the Herald L. and Caroline L. Ritch Professor in Humanities and Sciences in the economics department at Stanford University. She was also the founding director of Stanford’s Center for Research on Economic Development and Policy Reform and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. Ms. Krueger previously taught at the University of Minnesota and Duke University and, from 1982 to 1986, was the World Bank’s vice president for economics and research. A recipient of many economic prizes and awards, she has published extensively on policy reform in developing countries, the role of multilateral institutions in the international economy, and the political economy of trade policy. She has edited or coedited numerous books, including Economic Policy Reform: The Second Stage (University of Chicago Press, 2000) and The WTO as an International Organization (University of Chicago Press, 2000).

Philip I. Levy studies international trade and development at AEI. Before joining AEI, he handled international economic issues as a member of the secretary of state’s policy planning staff (2005–2006), was senior economist for trade on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers (2003–2005), and was a faculty member in Yale University’s department of economics (1994–2003). An economist by training, he has experience in many international trade and development policy issues, including free trade agreements, trade with China, antidumping policy, welfare effects of globalization, U.S. foreign assistance policy, and economic development policy.

Brink Lindsey is the director of the Center for Trade Policy Studies at the Cato Institute. Mr. Lindsey is the author of an important new book on globalization, Against the Dead Hand: The Uncertain Struggle for Global Capitalism (John Wiley & Sons, 2002). His writings have been published in the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, The New Republic, National Review, The Weekly Standard, and the Journal of World Trade. Mr. Lindsey has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, BBC, National Public Radio, and PBS and is also a contributing editor at Reason magazine. An attorney with extensive experience in international trade regulation, he was formerly director of regulatory studies at the Cato Institute and senior editor of Regulation magazine.

T. N. Srinivasan is the Samuel C. Park Jr. Professor of Economics and professor in international and area studies at Yale University. He has also taught at the Indian Statistical Institute in Delhi and at numerous universities in the United States. His research interests include the Indian economy, international trade, development, agricultural economics, and microeconomic theory, and he has published extensively in these areas. His most recent book is Reintegrating India with the World Economy, with Suresh D. Tendulkar (Institute for International Economics, 2003). His other books on India include Eight Lectures on India’s Economic Reforms (Oxford University Press, 2000); Agriculture, Growth and Redistribution of Income: Policy Analysis with a General Equilibrium Model of India, with N. S. S. Narayana and K. Parikh (Allied Publishers, 1991); and Foreign Trade Regimes and Economic Development: India, with Jagdish Bhagwati (Columbia University Press, 1975). He has coedited several books, including Federalism and Economic Reform: International Perspectives, with Jessica Seddon Wallack (Cambridge University Press, 2006); Frontiers in Applied General Equilibrium Modeling: Essays in Honor of Herbert Scarf, with Timothy J. Kehoe and John Whalley (Cambridge University Press, 2005); and Poverty and Income Distribution in India, with P. K. Bardhan (Statistical Publishing Society, 1974). He is a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Philosophical Society, the Econometric Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.