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International Trade in the Headlines
Overview
Paul Blustein (UW-Madison ’73), of the Brookings Institution’s Global Economy and Development Program, will discuss trends in international trade and describe his career trajectory as an international economics correspondent covering complex economic issues around the world.
Date(s)
2/4/2009
Time
4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
Location
3070 Grainger Hall
Target Audience
Students
Organized by
Center for International Business Education & Research (CIBER)
Sponsors
Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE)
Department of Economics
Department of History
Co-Sponsors
Business Career Center
Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Open to Others
Yes
Speaker Biography
Paul Blustein is the journalist in residence in the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. His primary fields of expertise are international trade and international economic policy and he specializes in writing about complex economic issues and institutions, with the aim of making the subjects appealing for expert and non-expert readers alike. He is the author of The Chastening: Inside the Crisis That Rocked the Global Financial System and Humbled the IMF (Public Affairs, 2001), and And the Money Kept Rolling In (And Out): Wall Street, the IMF, and the Bankrupting of Argentina (Public Affairs, 2005). He is currently writing a book about the World Trade Organization and the Doha Round.
Prior to joining Brookings in 2006, Blustein was a staff writer at the Washington Post, where he covered economic policy and related issues. He served in the Post’s Tokyo bureau as Asian economics correspondent from 1990 to 1995. As the Post’s international economics correspondent, a position he assumed in September 1995, he reported stories from countries all over the world including Pakistan, Egypt, Argentina, Honduras, Indonesia, China, Qatar, Greece, Mali and Ethiopia. Among the prizes he has received for his reporting is the Gerald Loeb Award, generally regarded as the most prestigious prize in the field of business and economic journalism.