Speaker Biographies
December 1, 2005

Claude E. 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 (AEI Press, 2001). In 1999, he coauthored Tiger by the Tail: China and the World Trade Organization (AEI Press) 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.

James K. Glassman is a resident fellow at AEI, where he specializes in issues involving economics and financial markets. In addition, he is host and co-founder of TechCentralStation.com, a for-profit website that concentrates on matters of technology and public policy. In September 2004, Mr. Glassman launched a new organization, Investors Action, for which he serves as chairman. Investors Action aims to educate America’s 90 million investors and represent their interests in the public-policy arena. Mr. Glassman also writes a weekly op-ed column on economic and political topics for the Scripps Howard News Service, and a monthly column on investing for Kiplinger’s Personal Finance. His most recent book, The Secret Code of the Superior Investor (Crown, 2002) was named one of the top ten investing books of 2002 by Barron’s. Between July 1993 and July 2004, Mr. Glassman wrote an internationally syndicated weekly column on investing for the Washington Post. From 1987 to 1993, he was editor and part-owner of Roll Call, the twice-weekly newspaper that covers Congress. Prior to that, he had a long career in magazine publishing—as president of the Atlantic Monthly, executive vice president of U.S. News & World Report, and publisher of The New Republic. In 1972, he started Figaro, a New Orleans weekly newspaper, which he sold in 1979. He served as executive editor of Washingtonian magazine from 1979 to 1981.

Arvind Panagariya is the Jagdish Bhagwati Professor of Indian Political Economy & Professor of Economics at Columbia University. In the past, he has been a professor of Economics and co-director of the Center for International Economics, University of Maryland at College Park, as well as the chief economist of the Asian Development Bank. He has also advised the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, World Trade Organization, and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development in various capacities. Mr. Panagariya has written or edited more than a half dozen books, including The Economics of Preferential Trade Agreements with Jagdish Bhagwat (AEI Press, 1996), The Global Trading System and Developing Asia with M.G. Quibria and N. Rao (Oxford University Press, 1997), and Lectures on International Trade with J. Bhagwati and T.N. Srinivasan (MIT Press, 1998). A collection of his essays on regionalism has appeared recently under the title Regionalism in Trade Policy: Essays on Preferential Trading, (World Scientific Press, 1999). Mr. Panagariya is the founding editor of the Journal of Policy Reform, which he edited with Dani Rodrik during 1996-2001.  He is currently an associate editor of Economics and Politics. His technical papers have appeared in the American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of International Economics, and International Economic Review, while his policy papers have appeared in the World Economy, Journal of International Affairs, and Finance and Development. Mr. Panagariya writes a monthly column in the Economic Times, India’s top financial daily. He has also written guest columns in the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Hindu, India Today, and Outlook.  He has appeared on the Jim Lehrer Newshour (USA), CNN (Asia), CNBC (Asia), CNBC (India), Reuters TV (Asia), Bloomberg TV (Asia), NDTV (India), Aaj Tak (India), Door Darshan (National-India), Chicago Public Radio, Minnesota Public Radio, and BBC Radio.

Henrik Rasmussen is the president of World Growth. An immigrant to the United States from Denmark, he resides in the Washington area and works as a public affairs consultant focusing on European politics and transatlantic relations. Before moving to the United States, Rasmussen served as a platoon commander in the Royal Danish Army and was active in politics with the Danish Liberal Party.