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 (AEI Press, 2001). In 1999, he coauthored Tiger by the Tail: China and the World Trade Organization (AEI Press) 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 co-staff director of the President's Commission for a National Agenda for the Eighties.
Marc L. Busch is the Karl F. Landegger Chair in International Business Diplomacy at Georgetown University. An expert in the areas of international trade, dispute settlement, the World Trade Organization, and international business, he teaches courses on international business, trade policy, and management, and focuses his research on international trade policy and law. Prior to his position at Georgetown, Mr. Busch was an associate professor and Queen's National Scholar at Queen's School of Business. He also served as an associate at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. Before that, Mr. Busch was an associate professor of government and social studies at Harvard University. In addition, he directed graduate student programs at Harvard's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. The author of the book Trade Warriors: States, Firms, and Strategic Trade Policy in High-Technology Competition (Cambridge University Press, 2001), Mr. Busch has also contributed articles to the American Journal of Political Science, American Journal of Sociology, British Journal of Political Science, Fordham International Law Journal, International Organization, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of World Trade, as well as various edited volumes. In addition to his teaching and research, Mr. Busch has served as a consultant to McKinsey & Co., Monitor's Country Competitiveness Practice, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, Health Canada, and the Trade Law Division of the Department of International Trade Canada. He is also co-editor of the Journal Economics and Politics.
Timothy M. Reif is chief Democratic trade counsel for the Committee on Ways and Means of the U.S. House of Representatives. He has held teaching appointments at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and at the Georgetown University Law Center since 1995. Previously, he served as associate general counsel, Office of the General Counsel, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and attorney-advisor, Office of the General Counsel, U.S. International Trade Commission, and in private law practice at Dewey Ballantine and Milbank Tweed. Mr. Reif has organized and jointly chaired four symposia on the World Trade Organization (1998, 2000, 2002, and 2005) and has written widely on trade topics. He is also the co-founder of Kids to Kids, a nonprofit corporation that empowers youth in Washington and Uganda to work together to improve education, orphan care, and medical care.
Eric Reinhardt is an associate professor of political science at Emory University. His research broadly concerns international political economy, covering issues from regional trade integration to the domestic politics of protectionism, with special attention to the political economy of international trade law and dispute settlement. He is the author of articles published in the American Journal of Political Science, International Organization, British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and Journal of World Trade, and has contributed chapters to a number of books.
Jay Smith is currently a fellow at the Institute of International Economic Law at Georgetown University Law Center. He teaches courses in international trade and international law at George Washington University and Georgetown University. His primary research interests are in international institutions, especially dispute settlement mechanisms in international agreements such as the North American Free Trade Agreement and the World Trade Organization. In collaboration with the National Security Archive, Mr. Smith has also begun a project on potential connections between domestic administrative law and international economic institutions. His research has appeared in journals such as International Organization, the Review of International Political Economy, and World Trade Review.
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