January 26, 2005
Speaker Biographies
Claude 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.
Lael Brainard is director of the Poverty and Global Economy Initiative and holds the New Century Chair in International Economics at the Brookings Institution, where she is directing projects on Offshoring: the Next Big Wave and on Redefining U.S. Foreign Assistance Strategy. Recent co-authored publications include Offshoring Services Jobs: Bane or Boon and What to Do and a book entitled, The Other War: Global Poverty and the Millennium Challenge Account. Brainard served as Deputy National Economic Adviser and Chair of the Deputy Secretaries Committee on International Economics during the Clinton Administration. As Deputy Director of the National Economic Council, she helped build a new White House organization to address international economic challenges. Before coming to Washington, Brainard served as Associate Professor of Applied Economics at MIT Sloan School, where her publications made important contributions to the understanding of the effect of offshore investment on trade and jobs, the measurement of structural and cyclical unemployment in the US economy, and strategic trade policy. Previously, Brainard worked at McKinsey and Company advising corporate clients on strategic challenges.
Ed Gresser has served as director of The Progressive Policy Institute's project on Trade and Global Markets since February 2001. In this capacity, he writes and speaks on the value of open markets, internationalism, and social responsibility in the global economy. Mr. Gresser's major focuses have included investigation of the American tariff system, trade promotion authority and the future U.S. trade negotiating agenda, hemispheric integration, economic relations with China in the wake of WTO membership and Asian affairs, as well as international finance and labor issues. He also developed and oversees PPI's widely praised "Trade Fact of the Week" electronic information service. His research has been covered by such publications as the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Financial Times, the Far Eastern Economic Review, and others, and has been cited by the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, the IMF, and other institutions. Mr. Gresser joined PPI after ten years of service in the Clinton administration and as a senior congressional staffer. As policy adviser to U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky from April 1998 through the close of the Clinton administration, he was the USTR's principal policy adviser, speechwriter, and research aide.
Gary C. Hufbauer is the Reginald Jones Senior Fellow and was formerly the Marcus Wallenberg Professor of International Finance Diplomacy at Georgetown University (1985–1992). He has also served as deputy director of the International Law Institute at Georgetown University (1979–1981); as deputy assistant secretary for international trade and investment policy at the U.S. Treasury (1977–1979); and as director of the international tax staff at the U.S. Treasury (1974–1976). He has written extensively on international trade, investment, and tax issues. He is coauthor of The Benefits of Price Convergence (2002) and World Capital Markets (2001) and coeditor of The Ex-Im Bank in the 21st Century (2001).
Brink Lindsey is the director of the Center for Trade Policy Studies at the CATO Institute. Mr. Lindsey is the author of an important new book on globalization, Against the Dead Hand: The Uncertain Struggle for Global Capitalism (John Wiley & Sons, 2002). His writings have been published in the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the New Republic, National Review, the Weekly Standard, and the Journal of World Trade. Mr. Lindsey has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, BBC, National Public Radio, and PBS and is also a contributing editor at Reason magazine. An attorney with extensive experience in international trade regulation, he was formerly director of regulatory studies at the Cato Institute and senior editor of Regulation magazine.
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