Recorded on March 31, 2021.
Remaking American Trade Policy with Asia
About the event:
President Biden’s new trade agenda is ambitious. He wants to reshape trade rules so that workers, disadvantaged communities, and the climate are protected and critical goods are made domestically. But US economic influence in Asia is in decline. The US is not a member of either of the major new Asian trade partnerships, the CPTPP and RCEP. Dr. Deborah Elms will talk about prospects for achieving Biden’s trade goals in Asia and the challenges faced by US trade diplomacy in the region.
Further reading:
US Worker Centered Trade Policy Meets Global Competition by Dr. Deborah Elms, Asian Trade Centre
About the speaker:
Dr. Deborah Elms is the founder and executive director of the Asian Trade Centre, which works with governments and companies to design better trade policies for the region. She also is president of the Asia Business Trade Association. She served on the Trade and Investment Council of the World Economic Forum from 2017-2019 and on the International Technical Advisory Committee of the Global Trade Professionals Alliance and was chair of the Working Group on Trade Policy and Law. She was also a senior fellow in the Singapore Ministry of Trade and Industry’s Trade Academy. Previously, Dr. Elms was head of the Temasek Foundation Centre for Trade & Negotiations and senior fellow of International Political Economy at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Dr. Elms received a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Washington, an MA in international relations from the University of Southern California, and a bachelor’s degree from Boston University. Dr. Elms publishes the Talking Trade Blog.