March 22, 2005
Speaker Biographies
Claude Barfield is a resident scholar and the director of trade, science, and technology policy studies 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 (2001). In 1999, he coauthored Tiger by the Tail: China and the World Trade Organization with Mark Groombridge. Before coming to AEI, he served in the Ford administration, on the staff of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, and as a costaff director of the President's Commission for a National Agenda for the Eighties.
Jagdish Bhagwati is University Professor at Columbia University and André Meyer Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations. He was economic policy adviser to the director general of GATT. Currently, he is the special adviser to the UN on globalization and external adviser to the director general of the WTO. Five volumes of his scientific writings and two of his public policy essays have been published by the MIT Press. In addition to receiving three festschrifts in his honor, he has also been awarded several prizes and honorary degrees.
Gary N. Horlick is a partner in the law firm of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP. He teaches international trade law at Yale and Georgetown, and served as the first Chairman of the World Trade Organization's Permanent Group of Experts dealing with subsidies. Mr. Horlick was responsible for U.S. investigations of antidumping and countervailing duty complaints as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration, and served as International Trade Counsel for the Senate Finance Committee.
John Jackson joined the Georgetown faculty after a distinguished career as Hessel E. Yntema Professor of Law at the University of Michigan. He has been a visiting faculty member at the University of Delhi in Delhi, India and the University of Brussels in Brussels, Belgium, a consultant on legal education to the Ford Foundation, a research scholar at the headquarters of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) in Geneva, Switzerland, and a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow in Brussels, Belgium. He has served as general counsel for the Office of the President's Special Representative for Trade in the U.S. Executive Office of the President in Washington, D.C. Over the years, he has also advised the U.S. and various foreign governments, international organizations, and in 2000, served as chairperson of a WTO panel for a trade dispute settlement procedure. Professor Jackson has served as a member of the board of editors for the American Journal of International Law, Law and Policy in International Business, International Tax & Business Lawyer, Fordham International Law Journal, and the Maryland Journal of International Law & Trade. He is the editor in chief and a founding editor of the Journal of International Economic Law (JIEL), published by Oxford Press (UK) since 1998.
Hugo Paemen is a senior advisor at Hogan & Hartson. Mr. Paemen advises European, U.S., and other companies concerning their dealings with European institutions. Prior to joining Hogan & Hartson, Mr. Paemen served from 1995 to 1999 as head of the European Commission's Washington Delegation. From 1987 until 1995 he served as the European Commission's deputy director-general for external relations, where he served as the European community's chief negotiator during the entire length of the Uruguay Round. From 1985 to 1987 he served as the official spokesman of the first Delors Commission. A career diplomat, Hugo held positions in the Belgian Embassies in Geneva, Paris, and Washington, D.C. where he served as economic minister from 1974 to 1978. Mr. Paemen is currently an adjunct professor at the BMW Center for German and European Studies of the Edmund A. Hugo wrote From the GATT to the WTO: The European Community in the Uruguay Round, and has contributed to several books and articles relating to current diplomatic and trade issues.
Jay Smith is an assistant professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University. Mr. Smith teaches classes in international trade and international law. His primary research interests are in the study of international institutions, especially dispute settlement mechanisms in international agreements such as NAFTA and the World Trade Organization. Mr. Smith has also been studying the judiciary and formal international legal status of Hong Kong, China.
Daniel K. Tarullo joined the faculty at the Georgetown University Law Center, following the five years during which he held senior positions in the Clinton Administration. Until March of 1998, Professor Tarullo was assistant to the president for International Economic Policy. He was a principal on both the National Economic Council and the National Security Council. From 1993 to early 1996 he was assistant secretary of state for Economic and Business Affairs. In March 1995, President Clinton appointed Tarullo as his personal representative to the G-7/G-8 group of industrialized nations. Before joining the administration in 1993, Professor Tarullo had practiced law for several years, following service on the staff of Senator Edward M. Kennedy and on the Harvard Law School faculty.
