Speaker biographies
Claude Barfield is a resident scholar 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.
Jagdish Bhagwati is an adjunct scholar at AEI, a university professor of economics and law at Columbia University, and a senior fellow in international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations. He was the economic policy adviser to Arthur Dunkel, the director general of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, from 1991 to 1993; a special adviser on globalization to the United Nations (UN); and an external adviser to the World Trade Organization (WTO). He was appointed by the director general of the WTO to serve on the expert group on the future of the WTO and has been a member of the advisory committee to UN secretary general Kofi Annan on the New Partnership for Africa's Development process. Mr. Bhagwati was also a member of the Eminent Persons Group, under the chairmanship of Brazilian president Fernando Henrique Cardoso, on the future of the UN Conference on Trade and Development. Five volumes of Mr. Bhagwati's scientific writings and two of his public policy essays have been published by MIT press. The recipient of six festschrifts in his honor, he has also received several prizes and honorary degrees, including awards from the governments of India (Padma Vibhushan) and Japan (Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star). Mr. Bhagwati's latest book, In Defense of Globalization, was published by Oxford University Press in 2004 to worldwide acclaim.
Brian Hindley is a senior fellow at the European Centre for International Political Economy, a Brussels-based think tank. He has published widely on trade policy, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, and the World Trade Organization. Mr. Hindley is emeritus reader in trade policy economics at the London School of Economics and also works as an economic consultant. As well as working with law firms, he has advised a number of international organizations, including the World Bank and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, on issues relating to international trade.
Philip I. 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 (2005-2006), was senior economist for trade on the President's Council of Economic Advisers (2003-2005), 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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