Robert Z. Lawrence is Albert L. Williams Professor
of International Trade and Investment, a Senior Fellow
at the Peterson Institute for International Economics,
and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of
Economic Research. He currently serves as Faculty Chair
of The Practice of Trade Policy executive programme at
Harvard Kennedy School. He served as a member of the
President’s Council of Economic Advisers from 1998 to
2000. Professor Lawrence has also been a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution
and taught at Yale University, where he received his PhD in economics.

His research focuses on trade policy. He is the author of Crimes and Punishments?;
Retaliation under the WTO; Regionalism, Multilateralism and Deeper Integration; Single
World, Divided Nations? and Can America Compete?.

He is co-author of Has Globalization Gone Far Enough?; The Costs of Fragmentation
in OECD Markets (with Scott Bradford); A Prism on Globalization; Globaphobia:
Confronting Fears About Open Trade; A Vision for the World Economy; and Saving Free
Trade: A Pragmatic Approach.

He has served on the advisory boards of the Congressional Budget Office, the Overseas
Development Council, and the Presidential Commission on United States-Pacific Trade
and Investment Policy.