Richard L. Aboulafia is vice president of analysis at Teal Group Corporation. He manages consulting projects in the commercial and military aircraft fields and analyzes broader defense and aerospace trends. He has advised numerous companies, including most prime and many second- and third-tier contractors in the United States, Europe, and Asia. He also writes and edits Teal Group’s World Military and Civil Aircraft Briefing, a forecasting tool covering over 135 aircraft programs and markets. Before joining the Teal Group in 1990, Mr. Aboulafia analyzed the jet engine market at Jane’s Information Group, served as an aerospace industry consultant for an international trade advisory company, and supported research projects at the Brookings Institution. Mr. Aboulafia writes about aviation and defense and has published numerous articles in Aviation Week and Space Technology, Financial Times, Military Technology, Avmark Aviation Economist, Jane’s Intelligence Review, and the Asian Wall Street Journal. He has a regular column in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics’ Aerospace America and has appeared on numerous television news and radio programs, including shows on ABC, BBC, Bloomberg, CBS, CNN, NBC, NPR, and PBS. He has spoken at numerous conferences, including the Air Transportation Research International Forum (ATRIF), National Aircraft Finance Association (NAFA), National Aircraft Resale Association (NARA), Network for Aerospace Management in Europe (NAME), and Speednews. He has lectured at the National Defense University and has served as an expert witness in aerospace markets.
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.
Marc L. Busch is the Karl F. Landegger Chair in International Business Diplomacy at Georgetown University. An expert in the areas of international trade, dispute settlement, the World Trade Organization, and international business, he teaches courses on international business, trade policy, and management, and focuses his research on international trade policy and law. Prior to his position at Georgetown, Mr. Busch was an associate professor and Queen’s National Scholar at Queen’s School of Business. He also served as an associate at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. Before that, Mr. Busch was an associate professor of government and social studies at Harvard University. In addition, he directed graduate student programs at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. The author of the book Trade Warriors: States, Firms, and Strategic Trade Policy in High-Technology Competition (Cambridge University Press, 2001), Mr. Busch has also contributed articles to the American Journal of Political Science, American Journal of Sociology, British Journal of Political Science, Fordham International Law Journal, International Organization, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and Journal of World Trade, as well as various edited volumes. In addition to his teaching and research, Mr. Busch has served as a consultant to McKinsey & Co., Monitor’s Country Competitiveness Practice, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, Health Canada, and the Trade Law Division of the Department of International Trade Canada. He is also coeditor of the Journal Economics and Politics.
Robert E. Herzstein has advised companies, trade associations, and governments on international trade, foreign investment, antitrust, and other aspects of government regulation of international markets for over thirty years. Prior to joining Miller & Chevalier, where he currently serves as counsel, he was a partner at Arnold & Porter and, more recently, at Shearman & Sterling. Mr. Herzstein served as under secretary for International Trade at the U.S. Department of Commerce and was the first head of the International Trade Administration. In those roles he negotiated access for U.S. businesses to the Chinese market following the first trade agreement between the United States and the Peoples Republic of China, and negotiated market access and antidumping issues with Europe, Japan, and other countries. In law practice, he has litigated on behalf of U.S. and foreign clients in the U.S. courts and international tribunals on trade agreements and on questions of sovereign immunity, citizenship, extradition, and access to discovery abroad. He has represented parties in some of the largest U.S. countervailing duty and antidumping cases. In some significant cases he has assisted in avoiding litigation through negotiated resolutions. Mr. Herzstein was lead counsel to Mexico in the NAFTA negotiations, and he recently taught a course at Harvard Law School entitled “NAFTA and Lawmaking in the Global Economy.” He has also served as chairman of the International Law Institute and the International Human Rights Law Group and is on the executive board of the American Society of International Law. He is a director of the Council of the Americas, the Appleseed Foundation, and Partners for Democratic Change.
Bruce E. Stokes is the international economics columnist for National Journal, a Washington-based public policy magazine, and a journalism fellow at the German Marshall Fund. In addition, Mr. Stokes is the coauthor of the new book America Against the World: How We Are Different and Why We Are Disliked (Times Books, 2006), based on the Pew Global Attitudes Survey, a poll of 90,000 people in fifty countries on changing public values and attitudes toward a range of issues, including globalization, modernization, democratization, and current foreign policy concerns, including America’s role in the world. He is also the U.S. rapporteur for the Transatlantic Policy Network, and from 1996 to 2002 he was a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Mr. Stokes is the coauthor of Democratizing U.S. Trade Policy (Council on Foreign Relations, 2001) and is the editor of the books Partners or Competitors: The Prospects for U.S.-European Cooperation on Asian Trade (Rowman & Littlefield, 1999), Future Visions for U.S. Trade Policy (Council on Foreign Relations, 1998), Trade Strategies for a New Era: Ensuring U.S. Leadership in a Global Economy (Council on Foreign Relations, 1998), and Open for Business: Creating a Transatlantic Marketplace (Council on Foreign Relations, 1996).
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