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. Mr. Barfield is working with Andrei Zlate on the forthcoming AEI Press book The Eagle and the Dragon: The United States, China, and the Rise of Asian Regionalism. Before coming to AEI, he served in the Gerald R. 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.

Paul Blustein is a journalist in residence in the global economy and development program at the Brookings Institution. His primary fields of expertise are international trade and international economic policy. Prior to joining Brookings in 2006, Mr. Blustein was a staff writer at the
Washington Post. He worked at the Post in numerous capacities since beginning his tenure there in 1987, serving first in the Tokyo bureau as an Asian economics correspondent and later as an international economics correspondent. He took two book leaves from the Post, during which he was first a visiting fellow at the Institute for International Economics and later a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution. From 1979 to 1987, Mr. Blustein was a reporter at the Wall Street Journal, covering the Federal Reserve and budget and tax policy and serving for four years as the paper’s chief economics correspondent. Previously, he was a writer at Forbes magazine. Mr. Blustein is a recipient of the Gerald Loeb Award, a prestigious prize in the field of business and economic journalism. He is the author of The Chastening: Inside the Crisis That Rocked the Global Financial System and Humbled the IMF (Public Affairs, 2001) and And the Money Kept Rolling In (and Out): Wall Street, the IMF, and the Bankrupting of Argentina (Public Affairs, 2005). He is currently working on a book about the World Trade Organization and the Doha round.

Gary Horlick is a partner at WilmerHale, where he provides global business, investment, regulatory, and negotiating advice to domestic and international clients. He has handled international antidumping and countervailing duty cases; cases related to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the World Trade Organization (WTO); and GATT, WTO, and free trade agreement negotiations for governments and businesses. Previously, Mr. Horlick served as the head of the U.S. Department of Commerce Import Administration and as international trade counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance. Mr. Horlick was the first chairman of the WTO’s Permanent Group of Experts on subsidies, and he has been chairman of both WTO and Mercosur panels. He is a member of various professional organizations and is a visiting lecturer at Yale Law School, Georgetown University Law Center, and the University of Bern. He has been recognized as the world’s leading practitioner in the field of trade and customs law in each edition of Who’s Who of International Trade and Customs Lawyers since 1998.

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.

Warren Maruyama was appointed general counsel for the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) in January 2007. Before rejoining USTR, Mr. Maruyama spent fourteen years as a partner in the international law firm of Hogan & Hartson, handling a wide range of trade policy, legislative, and market access issues for clients. He served in the White House Office of Policy Development from 1989 to 1991 as deputy associate director of international economic policy and as associate director in 1992, working on President George H. W. Bush’s major international trade policy initiatives, including Super 301, steel trade liberalization, NAFTA, the Uruguay round, and Enterprise for the Americas. From 1983 to 1989, Mr. Maruyama was an associate general counsel at USTR, and from 1986 to 1989 he served as lead U.S. negotiator for the Uruguay Round Subsidies and Countervailing Measures Negotiating Group. Mr. Maruyama’s first job in government was as an attorney-adviser at the U.S. International Trade Commission. He is a member of the board of governors of the Japanese-American National Museum in Los Angeles and was a member of the board of directors of the National Council of La Raza from 2004 to 2006.

Arvind Panagariya is a professor of economics and the Jagdish Bhagwati Professor of Indian Political Economy at Columbia University, as well as a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Previously, he was a professor of economics and the codirector of the Center for International Economics at the University of Maryland, College Park, and was the chief economist at the Asian Development Bank. Mr. Panagariya has also worked for the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization, and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development in various capacities. Mr. Panagariya has written or edited ten books, including India: The Emerging Giant (Oxford University Press, 2008) and Lectures on International Trade, with Jagdish Bhagwati and T. N. Srinivasan (MIT Press, 1998). He is also an editor of the India Policy Forum. Mr. Panagariya’s papers have been published in numerous journals, and he writes a monthly column in the Economic Times, India’s top financial daily. He has also written guest columns in the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, Hindu, India Today, and Outlook and has appeared on numerous national and foreign television channels.

Franklin J. Vargo is the vice president for international economic affairs at the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), where he serves as the chief spokesman on trade issues. Mr. Vargo is responsible for working with the NAM’s fourteen thousand member companies to obtain congressional and executive branch trade policies that benefit America’s manufacturers, and he is a leading lobbyist for trade agreements, currency policies, and other actions to reduce foreign barriers to U.S. trade and investment. Mr. Vargo is a well-known trade expert, and he is widely quoted in the press and is a recurring witness at congressional hearings on trade. He frequently speaks at trade conferences and seminars around the country. Prior to joining the NAM, Mr. Vargo had a three-decade trade policy career at the U.S. Department of Commerce. His various positions included deputy assistant secretary for Europe, deputy assistant secretary for Asia, and deputy assistant secretary for World Trade Organization affairs and trade compliance. During his career at the Commerce Department, Mr. Vargo was awarded the Presidential Rank Award for Distinguished Senior Executives, the highest recognition a career government executive can receive.

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