The Future of the Multilateral Trading System

(University Consortium)



Jeff Schott, Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics discusses the roots and future of the multilateral trading system in a lecture at Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs from March 31, 2009. Note: This presentation is 1 hour 22 minutes in length.

Schott joined the Peterson Institute for International Economics in 1983 and is a senior fellow working on international trade policy and economic sanctions. During his tenure at the Institute, Schott was also a visiting lecturer at Princeton University (1994) and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University (198688). He was a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (198283) and an official of the US Treasury Department (197482) in international trade and energy policy.

During the Tokyo Round of multilateral trade negotiations, he was a member of the U.S. delegation that negotiated the GATT Subsidies Code. Since January 2003, he has been a member of the Trade and Environment Policy Advisory Committee of the U.S. government. He is also a member of the Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy of the U.S. Department of State.

Schott is the author, coauthor, or editor of several books on trade, including Economic Sanctions Reconsidered; Trade Relations Between Colombia and the United States; NAFTA Revisited: Achievements and Challenges; Free Trade Agreements: US Strategies and Priorities; and Prospects for Free Trade in the Americas to name a few.