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The Annual
Charles L. Miller Lecture
The
World Turned Upside Down:
The Impact of the Return of India and China to their Historical
Global Weight
By
Clyde V. Prestowitz Jr., President, Economic Strategy Institute
A video
of the lecture is available for viewing on MIT World. Click
here.
About
Clyde V. Prestowitz:
Clyde Prestowitz is founder and President of the Economic
Strategy Institute. His leadership has propelled ESI into
an important role in the public policy process, influencing
and often defining the terms of the debate in the areas
of international trade policy, economic competitiveness,
and the effects of globalization. Mr. Prestowitz has played
key roles in achieving congressional passage of NAFTA and
in shaping the final content of the Uruguay Round, as well
as providing the intellectual basis for current U.S. trade
policies toward Japan, China, and Korea.
Prior
to founding ESI, Mr. Prestowitz served as counselor to the
Secretary of Commerce in the Reagan Administration. There,
he led many U.S. trade and investment negotiations with
Japan, China, Latin America, and Europe. Before joining
the Commerce Department, he was a senior businessman in
the United States, Europe, Japan, and throughout Asia and
Latin America. He has served as vice chairman of the President's
Committee on Trade and Investment in the Pacific and sits
on the Intel Policy Advisory Board and the U.S. Export-Import
Bank Advisory Board.
Clyde
Prestowitz regularly writes for leading publications, including
the New York Times, the Washington Post, Fortune, and Foreign
Affairs. He is the author of the best-selling book on U.S.-Japan
relations, Trading Places, and co-author and editor
of several other books on international trade and business
strategy including Asia After the Miracle; Powernomics;
Bit by Bit; The New North American Trade Order; and Rogue
Nation. His latest book, Three Billion New Capitalists:
The Great Shift of Wealth and Power to the East, deals
with the economic rise of Asia and the upcoming rebalancing
of the world economic order, and its impact on the United
States.
Mr.
Prestowitz has a B.A. with honors from Swarthmore College;
an M.A. in East-West Policies and Economics from the East-West
Center of the University of Hawaii; and an M.B.A. from the
Wharton Graduate School of Business. He also studied at
Keio University in Tokyo. He is fluent in Japanese, Dutch,
German, and French.
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