May 13, 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.
Tai Ming Cheung is a research fellow at the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation at the University of California, San Diego. Mr. Cheung previously worked in Hong Kong, China, and Japan as a journalist, securities analyst, and risk consultant. He is the author of China's Entrepreneurial Army (Oxford University Press, 2001), which examines the rise and fall of the Chinese military's engagement in commercial activities. He is conducting research for a book on the economic, commercial, and technological foundations of China's long-term defense modernization, which will examine issues such as the development of the defense industrial complex, the role and prospects for civilian-military integration, and the military dimensions of science and technology policies.
Will Martin is lead economist with the World Bank’s Trade and Development Research Group. In 1997, Mr. Martin was awarded the Alan A. Powell Award in recognition of his outstanding contributions to GTAP. He is currently leading a large project on World Trade Organization accession, policy reform and poverty reduction in China. Mr. Martin was a contributor to World Bank studies of the East Asian Crisis and Recovery, as well as a major contributor to the China 2020 series (World Bank, 1997). At the 1996 Bank Conference on Environmentally Sustainable Development, Mr. Martin was the organizer of the Roundtable on Trade Liberalization. He also organized the World Bank Conference on The Uruguay Round and the Developing Economies in 1995. Mr. Martin has coauthored many chapters on international trade in academic journals and edited many volumes on trade related issues.
Ernest Preeg is a senior fellow in trade and productivity at the Manufacturers Alliance. Previously, Mr. Preeg was the William M. Scholl Chair in International Business at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Prior to joining CSIS, Mr. Preeg served as chief economist at the U.S. Agency for International Development. A career foreign service officer, Mr. Preeg served as U.S. ambassador to Haiti, senior economic adviser for the Philippines, and deputy chief of mission in Lima, Peru. In addition, Mr. Preeg has served as executive director of the White House Economic Policy Group, deputy assistant secretary of state for international finance and development, and director of the Office of European Communities and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Affairs. He is the author of numerous books, including The Haitian Dilemma (CSIS, 1996), Cuba and the New Caribbean Economic Order (CSIS, 1993), and Traders in a Brave New World (University of Chicago Press, 1995).
Phillip C. Saunders has been a senior research professor at the National Defense University’s Institute for National Strategic Studies since January 2004. He previously worked at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, where he served as director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies from 1999–2004 and taught courses on Chinese politics, Chinese foreign policy, and East Asian security. Mr. Saunders has conducted research and consulted on East Asian security issues for Princeton University, the Council on Foreign Relations, RAND, and the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. Mr. Saunders served as an officer in the United States Air Force from 1989–1993, working on Asian security issues at the Pentagon. He has published numerous articles on China, North Korea, and Asian security in journals including International Security, China Quarterly, The China Journal, Survival, Pacific Review, and Orbis. He speaks Mandarin Chinese and has traveled throughout East Asia.
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