Claude E. Barfield is a resident scholar and the director of trade and science policy studies and technology policy studies at AEI. He is the author or editor of a number of books on trade and science policy, including the recently published Free Trade, Sovereignty, Democracy: The Future of the World Trade Organization. In 1999, he coauthored Tiger by the Tail: China and the World Trade Organization 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 costaff director of the President’s Commission for a National Agenda for the Eighties.

Jagdish Bhagwati is the Andre Meyer Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is also the Arthur Lehman Professor of Economics and professor of political science at Columbia University. Mr. Bhagwati has also served as economic policy adviser to director-general, GATT (1991-1993) and as special adviser to the UN on globalization (2001). Currently, he is an external adviser to the World Trade Organization. His early books, India: Planning for Industrialization (with Padma Desai, 1970) and India (with T.N. Srinivasan, 1975), are acknowledged to have provided the intellectual case for the economic reforms now underway in India. His most recent book, The Wind of Hundred Days (2000), was published by the MIT Press. Mr. Bhagwati also writes frequently for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Financial Times and reviews for the New Republic. He was a director of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and he recently served as adviser to India’s finance minister. Mr. Bhagwati is on the Academic Advisory Board of Human Rights Watch (Asia) and a member of the Advisory Board of the Council on Economic Priorities Accreditation Agency. In 1971, Mr. Bhagwati founded the Journal of International Economics, the premier journal in the field today, and Economics & Politics in 1989.

John B. Taylor was nominated for under secretary for international affairs by President Bush on April 4, 2001; confirmed by the Senate on May 26, 2001; and sworn in by Secretary Paul O’Neill on June 1, 2001. As under secretary for international affairs, Mr. Taylor serves as the principal adviser to the secretary of the Treasury on international economic and financial issues. Mr. Taylor’s previous government experience includes serving as senior economist on the Council of Economic Advisers from 1976 to 1977; member of the Council of Economic Advisers from 1989 to 1991; and member of the California Governor’s Council of Economic Advisers from 1996 to 1998. Mr. Taylor also served as a member of the Congressional Budget Office’s Panel of Economic Advisers and was a delegate to the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations. Before becoming under secretary, Mr. Taylor was the Roberts Professor of Economics at Stanford University. He is a globally recognized expert on international monetary and financial issues. Mr. Taylor has also served as senior fellow at the Hoover Institution; director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research; director of the Stanford Introductory Economics Center; and research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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