Robert Lawrence on the importance of trade and cooperation during the global financial crisis

Robert Z. Lawrence is Albert L. Williams Professor of International Trade and Investment, a Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He currently serves as Faculty Chair of The Practice of Trade Policy executive program at Harvard Kennedy School. He served as a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers from 1998 to 2000. Lawrence has also been a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He has taught at Yale University, where he received his PhD in economics.

Lawrence was in Australia in June 2009 as a guest of the United States Studies Centre during the National Summit (Sustainable Globalisation: Will it Survive the GFC?).

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