Robert Lawrence

Albert L. Williams Professor of International Trade and Investment
Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government
Office Address
Littauer-316
Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 61
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact
Phone: 617-495-1118
Fax: 617-496-2850
Email: robert_lawrence@Harvard.Edu
Assistant
Jean Dombrowski (617-495-1320)
Robert Lawrence

Profile

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. His research focuses on trade policy. He is the author of Crimes and Punishments? Retaliation under the WTO; Regionalism, Multilateralism and Deeper Integration; Single World, Divided Nations?;andCan America Compete? He is coauthor of Has Globalization Gone Far Enough? The Costs of Fragmentation in OECD Markets (with Scott Bradford); A Prism on Globalization; Globaphobia: Confronting Fears About Open Trade; A Vision for the World Economy; and Saving Free Trade: A Pragmatic Approach. Lawrence has served on the advisory boards of the Congressional Budget Office, the Overseas Development Council, and the Presidential Commission on United States-Pacific Trade and Investment Policy.

Courses

Fall

  • ITF-210 The Economics of Trade Policy
  • ITF-110 The Political Economy of Trade

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