PRESENTING AUTHORS
C. Fred Bergsten
Director, Peterson Institute for International Economics:
Mr. Bergsten has been director of the Peterson Institute for
International Economics since its creation in 1981. He has been the
most widely quoted think tank economist in the world over the
eight-year period 1997?2005. He was ranked in the top 50 ?Who Really
Moves the Markets?? by Fidelity Investment?s Worth, and as ?one of
the ten people who can change your life? in USA Today. He is
cochairman of the Private Sector Advisory Group to the United
States-India Trade Policy Forum. Mr. Bergsten was assistant
secretary for international affairs of the US Treasury (1977?81). He
also functioned as undersecretary for monetary affairs (1980?81),
representing the United States on the G-5 Deputies and in preparing
G-7 summits. Mr. Bergsten coordinated US foreign economic policy in
the White House as assistant for international economic affairs
(1969?71) to Dr. Henry Kissinger at the National Security Council.
Mr. Bergsten has authored, coauthored, or edited 38 books on
international economic issues.
Charles Freeman
Chairholder, Freeman Chair in China Studies, CSIS
Previous to CSIS, Mr. Freeman served as managing director of the
China Alliance. He also served as assistant US trade representative
(USTR) for China affairs (2002?05). During his tenure as assistant
USTR, he oversaw US efforts to integrate China into the global
trading architecture of the World Trade Organization. He also
negotiated and solved trade problems across a wide range of issues,
including intellectual property rights protection; financial and
nonfinancial services; tax, industrial standards, and technology
policies; and agricultural market access. Mr. Freeman served as
international affairs counsel to Senator Frank Murkowski (1999?02).
Nicholas Lardy
Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Mr. Lardy joined the Peterson Institute in March 2003 from the
Brookings Institution, where he was a senior fellow in the Foreign
Policy Studies Program (1995?03) and served as interim director of
Foreign Policy Studies (2001). Mr. Lardy is the author, coauthor, or
codeditor of Debating China?s Exchange Rate Policy (2008), China The
Balance Sheet (2006), Prospects for a US-Taiwan Free Trade Agreement
(2004), Integrating China into the Global Economy (2002), and
China?s Unfinished Economic Revolution (1998). Mr. Lardy is a
member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is a member of the
editorial boards of the China Quarterly, Journal of Asian Business,
China Review, and China Economic Review.
Derek Mitchell
Senior Fellow and Director for Asia, CSIS International Security
Program
Mr. Mitchell was special assistant for Asian and Pacific affairs in
the Office of the Secretary of Defense (1997?01) where he was the
principal author of the Department of Defense 1998 East Asia
Strategy Report. He served as senior program officer for Asia and
the former Soviet Union at the National Democratic Institute for
International Affairs in Washington, D.C. Mr. Mitchell worked as an
editor and reporter at the China Post on Taiwan (1989). He served as
assistant to the senior foreign policy adviser to Senator Edward M.
Kennedy (1986?88). He is the coauthor of China the Balance Sheet
(2006) and coeditor of China and the Developing World: Beijing?s
Strategy for the 21st Century (2007).
MODERATOR
Danny Leipziger
Vice President and Head, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management
Network (PREM)
Mr. Leipziger heads PREM, a network of more than 700 economists and
other professionals working on economic policy, lending, and
analytic work for the World Bank?s client countries. In this
capacity, he provides strategic leadership and direction to Regional
PREM units as well as groups working on economic policy formulation
in the area of growth and poverty, debt, trade, gender, and public
sector management and governance. He is heavily involved in
positioning the World Bank on major economic policy issues and in
managing the Bank?s overall interactions on these issues with key
partner institutions?including the IMF, OECD, regional development
banks and the European Union. He works closely with Regional Vice
Presidents on leading edge and cross-country economic matters.
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