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Ambassador John K. Veroneau was nominated by President George W. Bush and confirmed by the Senate in 2006 to be deputy United States trade representative. He previously served as the United States Trade Representative’s general counsel and, until returning to government, was a partner at the international law firm of DLA Piper in Washington, DC. Mr. Veroneau also served in the Clinton administration, having been nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate in 1999 as an assistant secretary of defense under Secretary William Cohen. Prior to his executive branch service, Mr. Veroneau held various senior policy positions in the United States Senate.

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 (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.

Kimberly Ann Elliott is a senior fellow with the Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics, with which she has been associated since 1982. She also holds a joint appointment with the Center for Global Development. She is the author or coauthor of numerous books and articles on a variety of trade policy and globalization issues. Much of her work focuses on the uses of economic leverage in international negotiations, including both economic sanctions for foreign policy goals and trade threats and sanctions in commercial disputes. She has coauthored two books on the costs of trade barriers in the United States, and in recent years has turned to broader globalization issues, including the backlash against globalization, the role of developing countries in the trade system, international labor standards, and the causes and consequences of transnational corruption. Her most recent book is Delivering on Doha: Farm Trade and the Poor, which was copublished by the Center for Global Development and the Peterson Institute in July 2006. She has also published articles in The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Current History, The Harvard International Review, and The World Economy, and has had opinion pieces published in the Journal of Commerce, Washington Post, and New York Times, among others. She has testified before Congress on sanctions and corruption, and in 2002–03 served on the National Academies Committee on Monitoring International Labor Standards.

Philip I. Levy studies international trade and development at AEI. Before joining AEI, he handled international economic issues as a member of the secretary of state’s policy planning staff (2005–06), was senior economist for trade on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers (2003–05), and was a faculty member in Yale University’s Department of Economics (1994–2003). An economist by training, he has experience in many international trade and development policy issues, including free trade agreements, trade with China, antidumping policy, welfare effects of globalization, U.S. foreign assistance policy, and economic development policy.

Warren Maruyama was appointed general counsel of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) in January 2007. Before rejoining USTR, Mr. Maruyama spent fourteen years as a partner in the international law firm of Hogan & Hartson, handling a wide range of trade policy, legislative, and market access issues for clients. Mr. Maruyama served in the White House Office of Policy Development from 1989–1991 as deputy associate director of international economic policy, and as associate director in 1992, working on President George H. W. Bush’s major international trade policy initiatives, including Super 301, Steel Trade Liberalization, the North American Free Trade Agreement, the Uruguay round, and the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative. From 1983 to 1989, Mr. Maruyama was an associate general counsel at USTR, successfully litigating GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) and U.S.-Canada free trade agreement disputes, negotiating trade agreements, and helping draft the Trade and Tariff Act of 1984 and Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988. He served from 1986–89 as lead U.S. negotiator for the Uruguay Round Subsidies and Countervailing Measures Negotiating Group, where he helped negotiate the Montreal Mid-Term Review agreement, which established a new framework for strengthening World Trade Organization disciplines over trade-distorting subsidies. Mr. Maruyama’s first job in government was as an attorney-advisor at the U.S. International Trade Commission. He is a member of the board of governors of the Japanese-American National Museum in Los Angeles and was a member of the board of directors of the National Council of La Raza from 2004 until 2006.

Arvind Panagariya is the Jagdish Bhagwati Professor of Indian Political Economy and a professor of economics at Columbia University. He was previously the chief economist of the Asian Development Bank, and a professor of economics and co-director at the Center for International Economics at the University of Maryland at College Park. He has also worked with the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, World Trade Organization, and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development in various capacities. Mr. Panagariya has written or edited a dozen books. His latest book, India: An Emerging Giant, will be published in January 2008 by Oxford University Press. His scientific papers have appeared in the American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of International Economics, and International Economic Review, and his policy papers have appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, World Economy, and Finance and Development. Mr. Panagariya is an editor of the India Policy Forum and an associate editor of Economics and Politics and the Journal of International Trade and Economic Development. He was the founding editor of the Journal of Policy Reform, which he edited with Dani Rodrik from 1996 until 2001. Mr. Panagariya writes a monthly column in the Economic Times, India’s top financial daily, and has also written guest columns in the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Hindustan Times, Hindu, and India Today.

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