The CSWHT Annual Conferences bring together academic researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers to discuss an array of topics affecting the Western Hemisphere in today’s global business world.
Neil Irwin
Author and Chief Economic Correspondent, Axios
Tonantzin Carmona
David M. Rubenstein Fellow at Brookings Metro
Dr. Leora Klapper
Lead Economist in the Development Research Group at the World Bank
Jason Marczak
Senior Director,
Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center,
Atlantic Council
Dr. James V. Koch
Board of Visitors Professor of Economics Emeritus and President Emeritus, Old Dominion University
Dr. Randall G. Holcombe
DeVoe Moore
Professor of Economics, Florida State University
Ambassador Earl Anthony Wayne
Distinguished Diplomat in Residence
School of International Service
American University, Washington, D.C.
Dr. Darrell M. West
Vice President & Director of
Governance Studies
Douglas Dillon Chair
Brookings Institution
Dr. David Brown
Associate Professor of Economics
and Canada Research Chair in Energy Economics and Policy
University of Alberta
Confernce Adjustments due to COVID-19
Due to the 2020 COVID-19 health crisis and the uncertainty regarding international and domestic travel, the on-site activities of the 24th Annual Western Hemispheric Trade Conference were cancelled.
The Conference continued with the special issue of The International Trade Journal, the Best Student Paper Award, and the production of the electronic proceedings
Dr. Craig VanGrasstek
Adjunct Lecturer in
Public Policy,
J.F. Kennedy School of Government,
Harvard University
Dr. Steven A. Camarota
Director of Research,
Center for Immigration Studies
Dr. Alexandre Padilla
Associate Professor of Economics
and Director of the Exploring Economic Freedom Project,
Metropolitan State University of Denver
Dr. Enrique Dussel Peters
Professor and Coordinator of the Center for México-China Studies,
School of Economics, National Autonomous University of México
Peter H. Lindert
Distinguished Professor of Economics
University of California
Research Associate
National Bureau of Economic Research
Ambassador Maria del Carmen Dominguez
Deputy Permanent Representative
of Chile to the United Nations
Luis Rubio, PhD
Chairman Mexican Council of Foreign Relations and Mexico Evalua-CIDAC
Edward Alden
Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow
Council on Foreign Relations
Cuauhtemoc Calderon
Research
Department of Economic Studies at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (El COLEF)
I. M. 'Mac' Destler, PhD
Saul I. Stern Professor,
Director International Security and Economic Policy
University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy
Paolo Giordano, PhD
Principal Economist in the Trade and Integration Sector
Inter-American Development Bank
Alfredo Corchado
México Bureau Chief
Dallas Morning News
Mexico City
Michael P. Dooley, PhD
Drobny Global Advisors & Professor Emeritus
University of California, Santa Cruz
Morten Jerven, PhD
Associate Professor
Simon Fraser University & Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Diana Villiers Negroponte, PhD
Public Policy Scholar
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Washington, D.C.
Stephen Haber, PhD
Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution
A.A. and Jeanne Welch Milligan Professor, School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University
James R. Barth, PhD
Lowder Eminent Scholar in Finance, Auburn University
Senior Fellow, Milken Institute
Fellow, Wharton Financial Institution Center
Edward J. Kane, PhD
Professor of Finance
Boston College
Denise Dresser, PhD
Professor of Political Science
Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)
William Krist
Senior Policy Scholar
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Peter W. Dorfman, PhD
Bank of America Distinguished Professorship
New Mexico State University
Joseph Michael Finger PhD
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Geneva), U.S. Treasury Department, World Bank.
Ambassador Joe O. Rogers, PhD
Rogers International LLC
Visiting Professor of Finance, Fudan University’s School of Management in Shanghai, China
Andrew Hilton, PhD
Director of the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation, London
Peter W. Dorfman, PhD
Bank of America Distinguished Professorship
New Mexico State University
Joseph Michael Finger PhD
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Geneva), U.S. Treasury Department, World Bank.
Ambassador Joe O. Rogers, PhD
Rogers International LLC
Visiting Professor of Finance, Fudan University’s School of Management in Shanghai, China
Andrew Hilton, PhD
Director of the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation, London
