Speaker Biographies
Is There Any Development in the Doha Development Agenda?
August 28, 2003
Rubens Antonio Barbosa became ambassador of Brazil to the United States in June 1999, in addition to having served in a wide variety of international affairs positions since 1960. From 1988 to 1993, he played a key diplomatic role in the conception, construction, and management of Mercosur, the Southern Common Market. At this time, he was at first the Brazilian ambassador to ALADI, the Latin American Integration Association, and then became the Brazilian undersecretary general of foreign relations for trade, regional integration, and economic affairs. His next assignment was as ambassador to the Court of St. James in London from 1994 to 1999. While serving in this role, he was also president of the Association of Coffee Producing Countries.
J. Michael Finger is a resident fellow at AEI studying international trade policy, development, and the GATT/WTO system. He previously held the position of lead economist for the trade policy research group at the World Bank. He has served on the faculties of the University of Bern, Stockholm School of Economics, and Duke University. He has worked as an economist at the Treasury Department, the United Nations, and the U.S. Tariff Commission. His books include Antidumping: How It Works and Who Gets Hurt; The Uruguay Round: A Handbook; and most recently, Institutions and Trade Policy.
Arvind Panagariya is a professor of economics and codirector of the Center for International Economics at the University of Maryland at College Park. He has served as the chief economist of the Asian Development Bank and has also advised the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, World Trade Organization, and UNCTAD in various capacities. Mr. Panagariya has written or edited more than half dozen books, including The Economics of Preferential Trade Agreements (1996, AEI Press) with Jagdish Bhagwati; The Global Trading System and Developing Asia (1997, Oxford University Press) with M.G. Quibria and N. Rao; and Lectures on International Trade (1998, MIT Press) with J. Bhagwati and T.N. Srinivasan. A collection of his essays on regionalism has appeared recently under the title Regionalism in Trade Policy: Essays on Preferential Trading (1999, World Scientific Press).
Sarath Rajapatirana joined AEI as a visiting scholar from the World Bank where he was an economic adviser. Previously he has been the division chief for trade and industry in the Latin America and the Caribbean Region for the World Bank, the team leader of the World Development Report on Trade and Industry, and the director of the research project on the Macroeconomic Performance of developing countries. Before joining the World Bank, he worked with the division for money and banking research in the Central Bank of Sri Lanka. His books include Trade Policies in Latin America and The Caribbean: Priorities, Progress, and Prospects and Liberalization and Industrial Transformation: Sri Lanka in International Perspective.
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