Speaker Biographies

Claude Barfield is a resident scholar at AEI. His areas of research and expertise include international trade, intellectual property, science and technology policy, and U.S. competitiveness. Mr. Barfield is currently completing a study of U.S., Chinese, and East Asian trade and investment relations entitled The Eagle and the Dragon: The United States, China and the Rise of Asian Regionalism (forthcoming from the AEI Press). His most recent publication include: Biotechnology and the Patent System (with John Calfee; AEI Press, 2007), High-Tech Protectionism: The Irrationality of Anti-Dumping Laws (AEI Press, 2003), and Free Trade, Sovereignty, Democracy: The Future of the World Trade Organization (AEI Press, 2001). Prior to joining AEI, he taught at Yale University, the University of Munich, and Wabash College; served in the Gerald Ford administration; and was co–staff director of President Jimmy Carter’s Commission for a National Agenda for the Eighties.

Gary Horlick is a partner in the law firm WilmerHale. He teaches international trade law at Yale University, Georgetown University, and the University of Bern’s World Trade Institute. Mr. Horlick served as the first chairman of the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Permanent Group of Experts dealing with subsidies, and he is an assistant editor of the Journal of World Trade. As deputy assistant secretary of commerce for import administration, he was responsible for U.S. investigations of antidumping and countervailing duty complaints. Mr. Horlick also served as international trade counsel for the Senate Finance Committee.

Douglas Irwin is the Robert E. Maxwell Professor of Arts and Sciences in the department of economics at Dartmouth College. He is the author of Free Trade Under Fire, Against the Tide: An Intellectual History of Free Trade, Managed Trade: The Case Against Import Targets (Princeton University Press, 2005) and many trade policy articles in books and professional journals. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and the editor of the World Trade Review. Mr. Irwin is currently working on a history of U.S. trade policy from colonial days to the present. He has taught at the University of Chicago and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and he was on the staff of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

John H. Jackson is a professor of law and the director of the Institute of International Economics at Georgetown University Law Center. Mr. Jackson is also the editor in chief of the Journal of International Economic Law. Previously, he was on the faculty of law at the University of Michigan, and he has been general counsel of the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. His latest book is Sovereignty, the WTO, and Changing Fundamentals of International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2006).

Brink Lindsey is the vice president for research at Cato Institute, where he helps oversee Cato’s research agenda and develops new research programs. From 1998 to 2004, he was director of Cato’s Center for Trade Policy Studies. An attorney with extensive experience in international trade regulation, Mr. Lindsey was formerly director of regulatory studies at Cato and senior editor of Regulation magazine. Mr. Lindsey is the author of The Age of Abundance: How Prosperity Transformed America’s Politics and Culture (Collins, 2007), Against the Dead Hand: The Uncertain Struggle for Global Capitalism (Wiley, 2001), and Antidumping Exposed: The Devilish Details of Unfair Trade Law (with Daniel Ikenson; Cato, 2003). His writings have been published in the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, The New Republic, National Review, The Weekly Standard, and Journal of World Trade. He is a contributing editor of Reason magazine and has appeared frequently on major broadcast media.

Petros Mavroidis is the Edwin B. Parker Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, a professor at the University of Neuchatel in Switzerland, and a research fellow at the Center for Economic and Policy Research. Mr. Mavroidis previously worked for the legal division of the WTO and has written extensively about the WTO and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.  His latest book is Trade in Goods (Oxford University Press, 2007).

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