Trends in Global Trade Policy-Multilateral, bilateral and Multi-regional

Paul London is President of Paul A. London and Associates, an economic consulting group. London was Visiting Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and recently published The Competition Solution, The Bipartisan Secret behind American Prosperity. In 1997, London was senior advisor at the U.S. Department of Commerce and served on the White House Task Force on Medical Errors, the HHS Task Force on Health Care Privacy, and on interagency groups focused on health care costs. Prior to that, London was Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Economics and Statistics and chair of the Working Group on the Pricing Outlook. London was executive director of the Coalition of Northeastern Governors, DAS for Conservation Policy at the Federal Energy Administration, executive director of the New England Economic Research Office, legislative assistant to Senator Walter F. Mondale, and served in the Department of State from 1960 to 1970 as an FSO in Washington, Paris and Viet Nam. He wrote one of the first books on privatization in economic development, The Role of Merchants in Development and has written many articles for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsday, The New Republic and other journals. London earned his bachelor’s, master’s in public administration and Ph.D. in political economy and government from Harvard.