April 21, 2005

Speaker Biographies

Claude Barfield is a resident scholar and the director of 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 co-staff director of the President's Commission for a National Agenda for the Eighties.

Ellen Frost is a senior fellow at the Institute for International Economics (IIE) and an adjunct research fellow at the National Defense University. Ms. Frost was counselor to the U.S. Trade Representative from February 1993 to June 1995.  She was previously corporate director for international affairs in the Washington office of United Technologies Corporation, director for U.S.-Japan relations in the Washington office of Westinghouse Electric Corporation, and deputy assistant secretary for International Economic and Technology Affairs at the Department of Defense. Her government experience includes positions within the Treasury Department, the Senate, and the Department of State. She is the author of several articles and books, including Transatlantic Trade: A Strategic Agenda (IIE, 1997).

Mikkal Herberg is director of the Asian energy security program at the National Bureau of Asian Research. He was previously director of the Asia-Pacific energy and environment program at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California–San Diego, where he also taught graduate courses on the politics and economics of global energy markets. Prior to this Mr. Herbeg spent twenty years at ARCO, where he was last director for global energy and economics  Mr. Herberg is a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy, the International Association for Energy Economics, and the board of directors of the California Council on International Trade.

Nicholas R. Lardy is a senior fellow at the Institute for International Economics in Washington, D.C.  From 1995 until 2003, Mr. Lardy was a senior fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies program at the Brookings Institute. Prior to his work at Brookings, he served was the director of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. Dr. Lardy has written numerous articles and books on the Chinese economy, including Integrating China into the Global Economy (IEE Press, 2002) and China's Unfinished Economic Revolution (Brookings, 1998). Mr. Lardy serves on the board of directors and executive committee of the National Committee on United States-China Relations, is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations; and is a member of the editorial board of The China Quarterly, Journal of Asian Business, China Review, and China Economic Review.

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