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International Trade: What are the Stakes for Politics, Rights, and Growth in Developing Countries?
Join CUPID and an experienced panel of speakers from across the university to discuss international trade. We will examine trade policies in both the developed and developing world, new forms of global governance such as the WTO, and the way that people in developing countries are responding to the growth of international trade.
Speakers:
James Potter - (MSUP, MIA, Columbia University, 2003) doctorate student in urban planning at Columbia. Before returning to school, he worked as an editor and translator for the South Korean Ministries of Environment and Labor in Seoul. In New York, he has consulted for a variety of entities, including the Manhattan Borough President's Office, Herrick, Feinstein, LLP, and CIVITAS. He also has co-written a chapter entitled "The Heights: An Ivory Tower and Its Community" (in University as Developer, M.E. Sharpe, 2004) with Peter Marcuse and "A Tale of Three Northern Manhattan Communities" with Richard Bass for the Fordham Urban Law Journal (January 2004). He has recently completed an article for the World Bank, entitled, "Inside Informality: Poverty, Jobs, Housing and Services in Nairobi's Slums (Report No. 36347-KE with Sumila Gulyani and Debabrata Talukdar). Broadly interested the role of industrial districts within the global trade network, his current dissertation research focuses on the role of infrastructure in structuring the commodity chains that constitute the world system of cities.
Prasanna (Guru) Sethupathy - 3rd year PhD student in Economics at Columbia University. His research interests include development, trade, and industrial organization. He is currently working on a paper trying to determine whether exporting leads to firm-level productivity spillovers in vertical and/or horizontal industries. Through IGERT-IDG, he spent this past summer at the World Bank on a project identifying complimentary policies to trade liberalization. Guru has a B.S. from Stanford and also worked for two years as an investment banker in the M&A group for JP Morgan in San Francisco.
Sonia Elise Rolland - PhD Candidate at Cambridge University and a Visiting Research Fellow at Columbia Law School. She has degrees from Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, at the University of Paris and the University of Michigan Law School. In 2004-5, she was a Judicial Clerk at the International Court of Justice. In 2003-4, she was an associate at Sutherland Abill & Brennan LLP in Washington DC, and participated in international trade matters(involving NAFTA, CAFTA, WTO, and U.S. trade laws), drafted requests for licenses and anti-boycott reports to the Office of Foreign Assets Control, and represented clients in anti-dumping duties proceedings against Customs and Border Protection and at the Department of Commerce; advised clients on shipping issues (Jones Act, licenses, etc.), counseled clients regarding energy import infrastructure development (particularly natural gas). She has published widely on international trade matters.
Marina Kaneti - Marina will focus on Mongolia which is a land locked, developing country, with no multilateral trade agreements with any of its regional neighbors. She will give a snapshot of the impact of this phenomenon and contextualize in terms of local social and economic development. Marina was in Mongolia for 3 months with the United Nations Development Programme in the summer of 2006. She was also one of the founders of CUPID.
Juan Pablo Osornio - MPA Candidate in Environmental Science and Policy. Juan will talk about some of the interactions between Trade and the Environment through history, then will talk about the NAFTA and its environment-trade cases, also covering the WTO.
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