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 (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.

Anne Krueger served as first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from September 1, 2001, to August 31, 2006. Before coming to the IMF, Ms. Krueger was the Herald L. and Caroline L. Ritch Professor in Humanities and Sciences in the Department of Economics at Stanford University. She was also the founding director of Stanford’s Center for Research on Economic Development and Policy Reform and a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution. Ms Krueger previously taught at the University of Minnesota and Duke University and from 1982 to 1986 was the World Bank’s vice president for economics and research. Ms. Krueger is a distinguished fellow and past president of the American Economic Association, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. A recipient of a number of economic prizes and awards, she has published extensively on policy reform in developing countries, the role of multilateral institutions in the international economy, and the political economy of trade policy. Recent books edited by Ms. Krueger include Reforming India’s Economic, Financial and Fiscal Policies (Stanford University Press, 2003) with Sajjid Z. Chinoy; Latin American Macroeconomic Reform: The Second Stage (University of Chicago Press, 2003) with Jose Antonio Gonzales, Vittorio Corbo, and Aaron Tornell; Economic Policy Reform and the Indian Economy (University of Chicago Press, 2003); A New Approach to Sovereign Debt Restructuring (International Monetary Fund, 2002); Economic Policy Reform: The Second Stage (University of Chicago Press, 2000); and The WTO as an International Organization (University of Chicago Press, 2000).

Robert Z. Lawrence is the Albert L. Williams Professor of Trade and Investment at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is also a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, DC. Mr. Lawrence served as a member of President Bill Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers from March 1999 to January 2001. He has held the New Century Chair as a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and founded and edited the Brookings Trade Forum series. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, the director of the Harvard Kennedy School Trade Group, and the faculty chair of Kennedy School Executive Programs. Mr. Lawrence has been a senior fellow in the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution (1983–91), a research associate at the Brookings Institution (1976–82), an instructor at Yale University (1975), and a professorial lecturer at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (1978–81). He has served as a consultant to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the World Bank, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. He was a member of the Presidential Commission on United States Pacific Trade and Investment Policy and has served as a member of the advisory committees of the Institute for International Economics, the Panel on Foreign Trade Statistics of the National Academy of Sciences, the Committee for Economic Development, the Overseas Development Council, and the panel of economic advisors of the Congressional Budget Office. He was the chair for the Project on Middle East Trade at the Institute for Social and Economic Policy in the Middle East at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. Mr. Lawrence has written over a hundred papers and articles on topics in the field of international economics. His books on domestic and international economic problems include Crimes and Punishments? Retaliation under the WTO (Institute for International Economics, 2003), Single World, Divided Nations? International Trade and the OECD Labor Markets (Brookings Institution Press, 1996), Regionalism, Multilateralism, and Deeper Integration (Brookings Institution Press, 1996), and Can America Compete? (Brookings Institution Press, 1984).

Philip Levy studies international trade and development at AEI. Before joining AEI, he handled international economic issues as a member of the secretary of state’s policy planning staff (2005–06), was senior economist for trade on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers (2003–05), and was a faculty member in Yale University’s Department of Economics (1994–2003). An economist by training, he has experience in many international trade and development policy issues, including free trade agreements, trade with China, antidumping policy, welfare effects of globalization, U.S. foreign assistance policy, and economic development policy.

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