Program Details
Guest Speaker: Trade Panel: Chad P. Bown, Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics; Soumaya Keynes, US Economics Editor for The Economist
Date: Thursday, October 11, 2018
Time: 12 - 2:00pm
Location: Cornell Club of New York (6 East 44th Street; Between Madison and 5th Avenue)
Fee: $75 for members; $115 for Guests
Mr. Bown and Ms. Keynes, cohost Trade Talks, a weekly podcast on the economics of international trade policy.
Chad P. Bown is the Reginald Jones Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington. With Soumaya Keynes, he cohosts Trade Talks, a weekly podcast on the economics of international trade policy. He previously served as senior economist for international trade and investment in the White House on the Council of Economic Advisers and most recently as a lead economist at the World Bank, conducting research and advising developing country governments on international trade policy for seven years. Bown was a tenured professor of economics at Brandeis University and has also spent a year in residence as a visiting scholar in economic research at the WTO Secretariat in Geneva. Bown received a BA magna cum laude in economics and international relations from Bucknell University and a PhD in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Soumaya Keynes is the US Economics Editor for The Economist, where she covers the US economy and the Trump administration's trade policy. She also co-hosts the podcast Trade Talks, a weekly discussion of the economics of trade policy, with Chad Bown of the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Prior to her posting in Washington DC, she was The Economist's economics correspondent, based in London. She spent three years at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, doing policy-relevant economic research on the British state pension system and public finances, and before that worked as a policy adviser at HM Treasury. She has an undergraduate degree and MPhil in economics from the University of Cambridge.