Understanding the Economic Impacts of Tariffs: Perspectives from Academia and Industry
Tuesday, April 15 | 8:15 am - 9:15 am ET
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Join the Institute for International Economic Policy and the GWU Department of Economics for a virtual discussion on the Economic Impacts of Tariffs, led GWU Economists as well as Industry Experts from the Institute of International Economic Policy's Executive Circle.
 Professor Michael Moore teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in international trade theory and policy as well as international macroeconomics. He also has taught international economics to US diplomats at the Foreign Service Institute and students at the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (Sciences-Po) in Paris. He has published in numerous academic journals including the Journal of International Economics, International Trade Journal, Canadian Journal of Economics, Review of International Economics, European Journal of Political Economy, and Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, and has been a contributor to five books. His commentary has appeared in numerous media outlets, including The Washington Post, The Financial Times, CNN, CBC, NPR, and NBC.
Professor Moore has served as Director of the Institute for International Economic Policy, Director of the International Trade and Investment Policy Program, Director of the Masters of Arts in International Economic Policy program and Associate Dean at the Elliott School. Professor Moore served as Senior Economist for international trade on the President's Council of Economic Advisors from 2002 to 2003.
Professor Moore received his B.A. in liberal arts from the University of Texas at Austin and his M.S. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
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 Professor Tara Sinclair is a macroeconomist and Professor of Economics and International Affairs at the George Washington University, where she also serves as director of the GW Center for Economic Research. Her research focuses on economic forecasting and produces models, explanations and predictions of macroeconomic fluctuations and trends. Sinclair uses her research to connect economic principles with real-world concerns, developing data sources and tools that policymakers can use in their decision-making. Additionally, she is a sought-after public speaker who regularly consults with public officials, business leaders, and the press on issues related to business cycles, labor market dynamics, forecasting, big data, and macroeconomic policy.
Sinclair formerly served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Macroeconomics in the Office of Economic Policy at the Department of Treasury, where she worked closely with Secretary Janet Yellen and was responsible for the Treasury’s domestic macroeconomic outlook. Prior to joining the Treasury Department, Sinclair was a senior fellow and former chief economist at job search site Indeed. She founded the Indeed Hiring Lab, the research arm of the world's #1 job site, and developed original research using Indeed data on labor markets around the world. She previously served as a Special Government Employee (SGE) member of the Bureau of Labor Statistics Technical Advisory Committee (BLSTAC) and was a visiting scholar at the St. Louis Federal Reserve, a visiting associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin, and a consultant at the World Bank. She earned a BA in Foreign Languages from Wheaton College and an MA and PhD in Economics from Washington University in St. Louis. |
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 Professor Steve Suranovic teaches principles of microeconomics, international trade and international finance theory and policy. In Fall 2002, he taught at Sichuan University in Chengdu, China, as a visiting Fulbright lecturer. Since 2009 he has taught summer study abroad classes for GW students at Fudan University in Shanghai. He has also spoken to business, government and academic audiences in Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, China and Mongolia as part of the U.S. State Department's speaker's programs.
Professor Suranovic's research interests include international trade policy analysis, fairness in international trade, and the behavioral economics of cigarette addiction and dieting. His most recent research evaluates unfair trade policies with China, and examines the world's addiction to fossil fuels and the implications for global climate change.
Steve Suranovic received his B.S. in mathematics from the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign and his M.S. and Ph.D. in economics from Cornell University. He has been a faculty member at the George Washington University since 1988. He has served several terms as the Director of the International Economic Policy M.A. program (formerly known as the International Trade and Investment Policy M.A. program) at the Elliott School of International Affairs. |
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 Carl Richardson jointly leads the Richardson business, a multi-generational, international investment firm with a business portfolio that is embedded across the world.
The independent family business was founded over 70 years ago in the West Midlands, the heart of the United Kingdom. Current growth capital investments include an award-winning Swiss technology company, a UK financial services business, a US based medical real estate company and the largest avocado grower in New Zealand.
Carl is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a Trustee of the Richardson Brothers’ Foundation. Recent past posts include being an Honorary Captain in the Royal Navy Reserve, Honorary Colonel of the British Army’s 35th Signals Regiment, Deputy Lieutenant for the West Midlands (representing the Royal Family in the region), and a Governor of Queen Alexandra College in Birmingham. Earlier in his career Carl was an International Officer at HSBC Bank, working in London, the UAE and Hong Kong.
Carl was educated at King’s College London, the Sorbonne (Paris) and George Washington University (Washington DC).
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 Lisa Schroeter is the Global Director of Trade and Investment Policy for Dow. As part of the corporate Global Government Affairs team, Lisa’s responsibilities focus on trade policy and regulations, trade negotiations, and investment issues that foster growth in Dow’s global businesses. The role drives bilateral, regional and multilateral strategies to promote policies that secure market access and facilitates global trade across Dow’s value chains and manufacturing.
Her role has direct responsibility for developing corporate strategies across trade policy, from tariff reduction to regulatory simplification; from export controls and sanctions to IP protection and to promote growth of environmental markets and diverse, inclusive workforces. Lisa regularly works with international colleagues and business leaders to engage on trade policy issues critical to drive Dow’s operations around the world. For the industry, she leads the global chemical industry trade association (ICCA) work on trade policy and global regulatory cooperation.
Before joining Dow, Lisa was the Executive Director of the TransAtlantic Business Dialogue (TABD). TABD was a unique trade-facilitation process by which American and European CEOs worked with the U.S. Administration and the European Commission to implement practical, detailed recommendations. Ms. Schroeter joined TABD in 1999 and managed the process on behalf of the Boeing Company, PricewaterhouseCoopers, United Technologies Corporation and Xerox.
Lisa is currently Chair of the WIIT Trust, driving a women’s empowerment and skills sharing program with local universities and was previously the President of WIIT (Association of Women in International Trade). In addition, she is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR); and a Board member of the Washington International Trade Association (WITA). |
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