EVENT:	The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs will host the third event in the Robert J. Pelosky, Jr. Distinguished Speaker Series with featured guest Jagdish Bhagwati. The economist and author will support his thesis that globalization is part of the solution, not part of the problem to world economics.
WHEN:	Wednesday, April 17, 2002 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
WHERE:	Funger Hall, Room 108 2201 G Street, N.W. Washington, D.C.
COST:	This event is free and open to the public.

Background:

Jagdish Bhagwati, a free trade economist, will lecture that globalization is part of the solution, not part of the problem to world economics. This view is contained in a book that he is finishing titled, “In Defense of Globalization; it has a human face but we can do better.”  Bhagwati will argue that the widely shared view that economic globalization may be economically benign and socially malign, is mistaken.

Bhagwati is currently University Professor at Columbia University and was, until 2001, the Arthur Lehman Professor of Economics and professor of political science at Columbia.  He served as advisor to director-general of the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs, (GATT) (1991-93), and is currently special advisor to the United Nations on globalization, external advisor to the World Trade Organization, the Andre Meyer Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and director of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is a prolific writer and recently published “Free Trade Today” (Princeton University Press).

In January 2001, Robert J. Pelosky, Jr. initiated the Distinguished Speakers Series in his name by committing a generous gift to The Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University to attract leading scholars and practitioners to address key international issues facing the United States.  This will be the third lecture in the series: the first was in March 2001, featuring William Cohen, former U.S. Secretary of Defense; and the second in December 2001 was a dialogue between journalists Thomas L. Friedman and Robert D. Kaplan.

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