Speaker biographies
Christopher DeMuth has been president of AEI since 1986. He was previously managing director of Lexecon Inc., an economics consulting firm; editor and publisher of Regulation magazine; administrator for regulatory affairs at the Office of Management and Budget; executive director of the Presidential Task Force on Regulatory Relief in the Reagan administration; lecturer and director of regulatory studies at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government; an attorney with the Consolidated Rail Corporation and the law firm of Sidley & Austin; and staff assistant to President Richard Nixon at the White House. He is a director of the State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Companies and two family companies. Mr. DeMuth is the editor of several books, most recently Religion and the American Future with Yuval Levin (AEI Press, 2008). His essays have appeared in The American Enterprise, Harvard Law Review, Yale Journal of Regulation, the Wall Street Journal, Commentary, and other publications.
Kimberly Ann Elliott is a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and holds a joint appointment with the Center for Global Development. Much of her work focuses on the uses of economic leverage in international negotiations, including economic sanctions for foreign policy goals, trade threats, and sanctions in commercial disputes. She also studies the costs of trade barriers in the United States, the backlash against globalization, the role of developing countries in the trade system, international labor standards, and the causes and consequences of transnational corruption. Ms. Elliot is the author or coauthor of numerous books on a variety of trade policy and globalization issues, including Economic Sanctions Reconsidered, 3rd edition (Peterson Institute, 2007), Delivering on Doha: Farm Trade and the Poor (Center for Global Development and the Peterson Institute, 2006), Can Labor Standards Improve Under Globalization? (Peterson Institute, 2003), Corruption and the Global Economy (Peterson Institute, 1997), and Reciprocity and Retaliation in US Trade Policy (Peterson Institute, 1994). She has also published articles in The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Current History, The Harvard International Review, and The World Economy, and has had opinion pieces in the Journal of Commerce, the Washington Post, and the New York Times, among others. Ms. Elliot has testified before Congress on sanctions and corruption and, in 2002 and 2003, served on the National Academies Committee on Monitoring International Labor Standards.
Anne Krueger is a professor of international economics at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, 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. She also served as first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from September 1, 2001, to August 31, 2006. Prior to the IMF, Ms. Krueger was the Herald L. and Caroline L. Ritch Professor in Humanities and Sciences in the economics department Stanford University. She was also the founding director of Stanford’s Center for Research on Economic Development and Policy Reform and a senior fellow at 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. A recipient of many 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. She has edited or coedited numerous books, including Economic Policy Reform: The Second Stage (University of Chicago Press, 2000) and The WTO as an International Organization (University of Chicago Press, 2000).
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.
Allan H. Meltzer is a visiting scholar at AEI and the Allan H. Meltzer University Professor of Political Economy at Carnegie Mellon University. He served as the honorary adviser to the Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies of the Bank of Japan from 1986 to 2002. He was a member of the President’s Economic Policy Advisory Board during the Reagan administration. He has been an acting member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers and a consultant to the U.S. Treasury and to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. In 1999 and 2000, he served as the chairman of the International Financial Institution Advisory Commission, which was appointed by Congress to review the role of these institutions. The author of several books and numerous papers on economic theory and policy, he is also a founder of the Shadow Open Market Committee. In 2002, he was elected a distinguished fellow of the American Economic Association. He received the first annual Irving Kristol Award and delivered the Irving Kristol Lecture at AEI’s annual dinner in February 2003.
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