CHAD P. BOWN, Senior Economist, joined the World Bank in September 2009 in the Development Research Group, Trade and International Integration (DECTI).

Bown’s research spans the economics of international trade agreements, trade policy, laws and cooperative institutions. His recent publications examine multilateral and preferential trade agreements, WTO dispute settlement, the international use of antidumping, countervailing duty, and safeguard trade policies, and the integration of China, India, Turkey, and other emerging economies into the global trading system. His trade policy monitoring initiatives during the global economic crisis of 2008-2010 stemmed from a trade policy transparency project he initiated at the World Bank in 2004, resulting in the freely available, Internet-based Global Antidumping Database, which is now part of the World Bank's Temporary Trade Barriers Database.

Bown has published an edited volume on the global economic crisis entitled The Great Recession and Import Protection: The Role of Temporary Trade Barriers (CEPR and World Bank, 2011). Bown's other recent books include a monograph titled Self-Enforcing Trade: Developing Countries and WTO Dispute Settlement (Brookings Institution Press, 2009) and a co-edited volume with Joost Pauwelyn titled The Law, Economics, and Politics of Retaliation in WTO Dispute Settlement (Cambridge University Press, 2010).

Bown served as Senior Economist in the White House on the President's Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) during 2010-2011. He is formerly a tenured Professor of Economics at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, he has also been the Okun-Model Fellow in Economic Studies and a non-resident Fellow in the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution in Washington, and he spent a year in residence as a visiting scholar in Economic Research at the WTO Secretariat in Geneva.

Bown is currently a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, an Associate Editor for the Journal of World Trade, and he serves as the Book Review Editor and on the editorial board for the World Trade Review.

Bown received a B.A. magna cum laude in Economics and International Relations from Bucknell University and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Contact information: cbown@worldbank.org

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