Tariffs and Trade in the Wake of a New Trump Administration

Should we take President Trump’s trade threats seriously? What’s the real source of America’s trade troubles? And do we know - does Trump even know - what he wants?
About the Speakers
Patricia Goff specializes in international political economy, international relations theory, and international organization, with a particular interest in trade and the cultural capacity of international organizations. She is co-editor (with Kevin C. Dunn) of Identity and Global Politics: Theoretical and Empirical Elaborations (Palgrave, 2004) and co-editor (with Paul Heinbecker) of Irrelevant or Indispensable?: The United Nations in the 21st Century (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2005). She is also author of Limits to Liberalization: Local Culture in a Global Marketplace (Cornell University Press: 2007) and co-author (with Jörg broschek) of The Multilevel Politics of Trade (University of Toronto Press: 2020).
John Hancock works at the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva, Switzerland, where he has served as senior policy advisor to the Director-General, representative to the IMF and World Bank, and head of policy development. He spearheaded the launch of the WTO’s Aid-for-Trade Initiative, as well as the recent ‘Joint Initiatives’ on investment facilitation and other emerging issues. Prior to joining the WTO, John was senior advisor to Canada’s trade minister. He holds a PhD from Cambridge University, has written and spoken frequently on international issues.
Dr. Bob Koopman is currently Hurst Senior Professorial Lecturer at American Universities School of International Service where his research focuses on the impact of trade and trade policy on economic development and growth. Bob previously served as the Chief Economist of the World Trade Organization and an Adjunct Professor of International Economics at the Graduate Institute, Geneva from 2014 to 2022. At the WTO Bob served as Chief Economic Counsellor to the Director General, and provided the WTO Secretariat and Member Countries with analysis and information that promoted a deeper understanding of trade and trade policy’s role in economic growth and development. Bob also served as the WTO representative to the G20 Trade and Investment Working Group and the G20 Framework Group. He is a research associate of CEPR, London, serves on numerous advisory boards, and is an editor of the Springer Series on Advances in Applied General Equilibrium Modeling.
Dr. Miguel Ángel Santos is the Dean at Monterrey and sits on the APSIA Executive Committee. An expert in public development policies and the author of numerous academic and media articles and collective books, he worked for seven years at Harvard Kennedy School, as an adjunct professor and director of applied research at the Harvard Growth Lab. From there, he led multidisciplinary teams in Latin America, Eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East, to assist national and regional governments in their growth and development strategies. He was a visiting professor at the London School of Economics, LSE, in the United Kingdom, and director of the Growth Co-Lab, a joint initiative of LSE and Harvard.
This event was co-hosted by American University and the Global Political Economy and STEM for Global Resilience Research Clusters at the Balsillie School.
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