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Lori Wallach(born 1964) is the Director ofRethink Tradeat theAmerican Economic Liberties Projectand a senior advisor to the Citizens Trade Campaign.[1]She is known for her extensive work translating arcane trade-agreement provisions into what they mean for people's lives and advocating for fair trade policies.[2]She has played a key role in shaping public discourse on trade issues.[3]
Lori Wallach | |
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| Born | 1964 (age 59–60) Wisconsin |
| Education | Wellesley College(BA) Harvard University(JD) |
Education and early career
editWallach was born in 1964 inWisconsin,and is of Jewish descent.[4]She graduated fromWellesley Collegein 1986 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science. She received herJuris Doctor(J.D.) fromHarvard Law Schoolin 1990.[5]
Wallach joinedPublic Citizen’s Litigation Group as the firstSupreme CourtAssistance Project fellow in 1990. She also foundedPublic Citizen'sGlobal Trade Watch,which she directed for 26 years.[1]Before starting her role at Public Citizen, Wallach worked onCapitol Hill,on electoral campaigns, and intelevision news.
Career
editWallach, a 30-year veteran of international and U.S. congressional trade battles starting with the 1990s fights overNAFTAandWTO,has an encyclopedic knowledge of trade pacts, policies, outcomes, and politics.[6]
She was named to "Politico’s 50" list of thinkers, doers, and visionaries transforming American politics for her leadership in theTrans-Pacific Partnership(TPP) debate in 2016 and has been onWashingtonian's500 Most Influential list for many years.[7][8]She is an internationally recognized expert ontradewith experience advocating inCongressand foreign parliaments, trade negotiations, courts, government agencies, the media, and in the streets. Dubbed"the Trade Debate’s Guerrilla Warrior" in anAtlanticprofileand "Ralph Nader with a sense of humor" in aWall Street Journalprofile, Wallach combines a lawyer's expertise on the terms and outcomes of agreements with insight from the front lines of trade debates.[9]
Wallach was a leader in the opposition to theTrans-Pacific Partnership(TPP), which is the first major U.S.trade agreementthatCongressrefused to approve.[10]Wallach helped inform Congress and the public about the TPP's threats, including expanding the power of corporations to attack domestic health, labor, and environmental policies; its incentives to offshore U.S. jobs and investment to low-wage countries; its new monopoly powers forBig Pharmato raise medicine prices; and its ban onBuy LocalandBuy Americanprocurement. She referred to the TPP as "NAFTAon steroids "and analyzed, exposed and elevated publicly its potential consequences.[11]In a 2021 op-ed forThe Washington Postco-written with economistJoseph Stiglitz,Wallach endorsed the waiving of intellectual property (IP) restrictions on COVID-19 vaccines to support global vaccination efforts.[12]
Recognition
editWallach has made numerous appearances on prominent media platforms includingMSNBC,CNN,NPR,ABC,CNBC,Fox News,PBS,Bloomberg TV,BBCandC-SPAN.[13][14][15]In addition, she has been quoted extensively in publications such asThe New York Times,The Economist,Forbes,The Washington Post,The Wall Street Journal,Financial Times,USA Today,Bloomberg,andThe National Journal.She is also a frequent contributor to theHuffington Post,Democracy Now!,andPBS.[16][17]
RepresentativeRosa DeLauropraised Wallach's "granular knowledge" and stated that Wallach is her "source of information and knowledge."[18]
Publications
edit- 1998:Mai: The Multilateral Agreement on Investment and the Threat to American FreedomISBN978-0-7737-5979-4[19]
- 1999:The WTO: Five Years of Reasons to Resist Corporate GlobalizationISBN978-1-58322-035-1[20]
- 2004:Whose Trade Organization?: The Comprehensive Guide to the WTOISBN978-1-56584-841-2[21]
- 2004:Alternatives to Economic Globalization: A Better World Is Possible (Anthology)ISBN978-1-57675-303-3[22]
- 2013:The Rise and Fall of Fast Track Trade Authority - Updated and Expanded EditionISBN978-1-58231-052-7[23]
References
edit- ^"Washingtonpost.com: Live Online".www.washingtonpost.com.RetrievedFebruary 2,2024.
- ^"Commanding Heights: Lori Wallach | on PBS".www.pbs.org.RetrievedJanuary 29,2024.
- ^Stockman, Farah (2024) [Jan. 16]."Why This Unlikely Washington Friendship Endures".
- ^"Harvard Alumnus Profile".Harvard Law Bulletin.RetrievedMay 27,2014.
- ^Kelley, Margie."Dangerous liaisons?".Harvard Law School.RetrievedFebruary 2,2024.
- ^"Lori Wallach and Gary Hufbauer on NAFTA | C-SPAN.org".www.c-span.org.RetrievedJanuary 29,2024.
- ^"#12: Michael Froman & Lori Wallach - The POLITICO 50".POLITICO Magazine.RetrievedFebruary 2,2024.
- ^"Washington DC's 500 Most Influential People".May 3, 2022.RetrievedJanuary 29,2024.
- ^Davis, Bob (1998)."Activist Teams-Up With Labor To Fight Free Trade and the IMF".Wall Street Journal.
- ^"Why Is This Happening? Fighting over trade wars with Lori Wallach".NBC News.January 15, 2019.RetrievedJanuary 29,2024.
- ^Wallach, Lori (June 27, 2012)."NAFTA on Steroids".ISSN0027-8378.RetrievedJanuary 29,2024.
- ^"Opinion | Preserving intellectual property barriers to covid-19 vaccines is morally wrong and foolish".Washington Post.April 24, 2021.ISSN0190-8286.RetrievedFebruary 8,2024.
- ^"Trading our future?".MSNBC.com.RetrievedJanuary 29,2024.
- ^Stiglitz, Joseph; Wallach, Lori (November 30, 2021)."The pandemic will continue to rage as long as the WTO keeps bickering over vaccine rules | CNN Business".CNN.RetrievedJanuary 29,2024.
- ^"Coup d'Etat to Trade Seen in Billionaire Toxic Lead Fight".Bloomberg.com.May 10, 2013.RetrievedJanuary 29,2024.
- ^"Bill Moyers Journal. LORI WALLACH | PBS".www.pbs.org.RetrievedJanuary 29,2024.
- ^"Shows featuring Lori Wallach".Democracy Now!.RetrievedJanuary 29,2024.
- ^Weisman, Jonathan (2015) [April 27th]."Trans-Pacific Partnership Puts Harvard Law School Rivals on Opposite Sides, Again".
- ^"Mai: The Multilateral Agreement on Investment and the Threat to American Freedom by Lori Wallach, Tony Clarke".app.thestorygraph.com.RetrievedJanuary 29,2024.
- ^www.bibliopolis.com."The Wto: Five Years of Reasons to Resist Corporate Globalization Open Media Pamphlet Series by MICHELLE SFORZA LORI WALLACH on A Cappella Books".A Cappella Books.RetrievedJanuary 29,2024.
- ^"Whose Trade Organization?".The New Press.RetrievedJanuary 29,2024.
- ^"From Berrett Koehler Publishers: Alternatives to Economic Globalization".Berrett-Koehler Publishers.July 6, 2017.
- ^"The Rise and Fall of Fast Track Trade Authority".Archived fromthe originalon March 23, 2010.RetrievedMarch 18,2020.