Speaker biographies
Claude Barfield is a resident scholar 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.
Brian Hindley is a senior fellow at the European Centre for International Political Economy, a Brussels-based think tank. He has published widely on trade policy, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, and the World Trade Organization. Mr. Hindley is emeritus reader in trade policy economics at the London School of Economics and also works as an economic consultant. As well as working with law firms, he has advised a number of international organizations, including the World Bank and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, on issues relating to international trade.
Daniel J. Ikenson is the associate director of the Cato Institute’s Center for Trade Policy Studies, focusing on World Trade Organization disputes, regional trade agreements, U.S.-Chinese trade issues, steel and textile trade policies, and antidumping reform. Before joining Cato in 2000, Mr. Ikenson was the director of international trade planning for an international accounting and business advisory firm. Before that, he cofounded the Library of International Trade Resources, a consulting firm providing interactive information access and international trade consulting. Previously, he was a trade policy and antidumping analyst at various international trade law practices in Washington, D.C. He has been involved in international trade since 1990. Mr. Ikenson is the author of many studies and articles on trade policy and is the coauthor of Antidumping Exposed: The Devilish Details of Unfair Trade Law (Cato, 2003). He has appeared on The Newshour with Jim Lehrer, CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg Television, MSNBC, ABC News, and NPR. His articles have been published in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Times, the Detroit News, National Review Online, and elsewhere.
Anuar Kurzhikayev is the third secretary of the Embassy of Kazakhstan, where he has worked on trade and economic issues in the commercial section since March 2008. Previously, he worked as an expert in the World Trade Organization (WTO) department at the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Kazakhstan. At the ministry, Mr. Kurzhikayev focused on European Union participation and the U.S. bilateral agreements related to Kazakhstan’s accession into the WTO.
Ernest Preeg has been a senior fellow in trade and productivity at the Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI since 2000. He was a career foreign service officer specializing in international trade, finance, and economic development. He was a member of the U.S. delegations to the Kennedy and Uruguay Rounds of trade negotiations and served as deputy assistant secretary of state for international finance and development, chief economist at the U.S. Agency for International Development, and White House executive director of the Economic Policy Group. He also served as the U.S. ambassador to Haiti. After retirement, Mr. Preeg held the Scholl Chair in International Business at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and was a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. He is the author of numerous books, including The Emerging Chinese Advanced Technology Superstate (Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI/Hudson Institute, 2005), and the coeditor of U.S. Manufacturing: The Engine for Growth in a Global Economy with Thomas J. Duesterberg (Praeger Publishers, 2003). His newest book is India and China: An Advanced Technology Race and How the United States Should Respond (Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI/CSIS, 2008).
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