Speaker biographies

James Bacchus is chairman of the global trade and investment practice group of Greenberg Traurig. He focuses on international trade and investment issues, especially those relating to trade and commerce rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO). He is also a visiting professor of law at Vanderbilt University Law School. Mr. Bacchus served for eight years on the appellate body of the WTO, the global court of final appeal in international trade, rising to the position of chairman. From 1991 to 1995, he served in the Florida House of Representatives, where he was a leader in bipartisan efforts to advance international trade issues. He supported, among other issues, presidential “fast-track” negotiating authority on trade issues, the North American Free Trade Agreement, and extending most-favored-nation treatment for China. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Commission on Trade and Investment Policy of the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris. Mr. Bacchus is the author of Trade and Freedom (Cameron May, 2004).

Steve Charnovitz is an associate professor of law at the George Washington University Law School. Before joining the faculty in 2004, Mr. Charnovitz practiced law for six years at WilmerHale in Washington, D.C. From 1995 to 1999, he was the director of the Global Environment and Trade Study at Yale University; before that, he was the policy director of the U.S. Competitiveness Policy Council. He also spent four years serving as a legislative assistant to the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. Earlier in his career, he was an analyst at the U.S. Department of Labor, where his assignments included worker rights in U.S. trade negotiations, trade adjustment assistance, and technical cooperation with Saudi Arabia. Mr. Charnovitz is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and has written several books, most recently Global Warming and the World Trading System (Institute for International Economics, 2009).

Scott Ganz is program manager for economic policy studies at AEI. His research interests include environmental regulatory policy, international economic institutions, and U.S. income taxation. His work has appeared in The American and AEI’s Tax Policy Outlook, and he has an article forthcoming in Tax Notes on border adjusting environmental taxes. Before coming to AEI, Mr. Ganz was an aide in the New York State Senate and co-owner of MAStorage, a moving and storage company in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Kenneth P. Green studies public policy with respect to air pollution and climate change, energy and the environment, transportation and the environment, and environmental chemicals as a resident scholar at AEI. His work includes analysis of Canadian environmental policy. He has authored numerous policy studies, newspaper and magazine articles, several encyclopedia entries and book chapters, and a textbook for middle-school students entitled Global Warming: Understanding the Debate (Enslow Publishers, 2002). Mr. Green has worked on both U.S. and Canadian policy, first at California’s Reason Foundation, then for nearly three years at British Columbia’s Fraser Institute.

Gary N. Horlick is an international trade lawyer at the Law Offices of Gary N. Horlick. Previously, he was a partner at WilmerHale, where he provided global business, investment, regulatory, and negotiating advice to domestic and international clients. He has handled international antidumping and countervailing duty cases; cases related to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the World Trade Organization (WTO); and GATT, WTO, and free trade agreement negotiations for governments and businesses. Mr. Horlick has also served as the head of the U.S. Department of Commerce Import Administration and as international trade counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance. He was the first chairman of the WTO’s Permanent Group of Experts on subsidies, and he has been chairman of both WTO and Mercosur panels. Mr. Horlick is also a visiting lecturer at Yale Law School, Georgetown University Law Center, and the University of Bern.

John Veroneau is a partner at Covington & Burling, where he provides legal and strategic advice to clients with global interests. Ambassador Veroneau recently served as deputy U.S. trade representative (USTR), where he had broad supervisory responsibilities over U.S. trade policy. He previously served as the USTR’s general counsel, responsible for U.S. trade law and litigation activities. In these capacities, he worked on a wide range of matters, including negotiating trade and investment agreements, initiating and defending World Trade Organization disputes, executing U.S. trade laws, and assisting U.S. companies to overcome foreign regulatory barriers. As deputy USTR, Ambassador Veroneau made official visits to more than thirty countries and represented the USTR on various government boards, including the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, Export-Import Bank, Overseas Private Investment Corporation, and Millennium Challenge Corporation. Earlier in his career, he served as legislative director to Senator Bill Cohen (R-Maine) and Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) and as chief of staff to Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine).

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