October 7, 2004

Speaker Biographies

Claude E. Barfield is a resident scholar and the director of trade, science, and technology policy studies 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 (2001). 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.

John E. Calfee is a resident scholar at AEI. From 1980 to 1986, he served in the Bureau of Economics at the Federal Trade Commission. Mr. Calfee has taught marketing and consumer behavior in the business schools of the University of Maryland-College Park and Boston University, and he was a visiting senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of Prices, Markets, and the Pharmaceutical Revolution (AEI Press, 2000) and Fear of Persuasion: A New Perspective on Advertising and Regulation (distributed by AEI Press, 1997).

Robert B. Helms is a resident scholar and the director of health policy studies at AEI. He has written and lectured extensively on health policy, health economics, and pharmaceutical economic issues. Mr. Helms currently participates in the Consensus Group, an informal task force that is developing market-oriented health reform concepts. From 1981 to 1989, he served as the assistant secretary for planning and evaluation and deputy assistant secretary for health policy in the Department of Health and Human Services. Mr. Helms is the editor of several AEI publications on health policy: Medicare in the Twenty-first Century: Seeking Fair and Efficient Reform; American Health Policy: Critical Issues for Reform; Health Policy Reform: Competition and Controls; Health Care Policy and Politics: Lessons from Four Countries; and Competitive Strategies in the Pharmaceutical Industry.

Fabio Pammolli is a full professor of economics and management in the faculty of economics at the University of Florence, as well as the director of institutions, markets, and technology at the Lucca Institute for Advanced Studies. His research interests encompass the fields of industrial dynamics and market regulation; the economics of innovation; and economic analysis of the pharmaceutical industry. He is a member of the World Health Organization’s Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation, and Public Health. He is also a director of European Pharmaceutical Innovation and Regulation Systems and the founder and director of Competitività Regolazione Mercati. Mr. Pammolli was an adviser to the European Commission's G-10 Group on the Provision of Medicines. He is the author of two books and of several publications in international journals, including the International Journal of Industrial Organization, Management Science, Physica-A, Revue d'Economie Industrielle, Research Policy, Small Business Economics, The Economist, and R&D Management.

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