Global Innovation, Trade and Development Policy Initiative
The International Trade and Development Program Initiative (ITDPI) will be the first phase of the Monterey Institute’s effort to consolidate and enhance the Institute’s research and academic programs addressing the policy challenges of international trade and development.
The focus includes:
- Teaching an intensive trade policy workshop from the practitioner’s point of view.
- Encouraging development of student resources for international trade policy, including the annual student-organized trade policy conference scheduled for March 12, 2010.
- Helping to develop relevant professional opportunities, such as those offered through internships, consulting projects, and research activities, for Monterey Institute students and faculty in the arena of international trade and development.
- Considering the possibility of creating a center for trade and development policy at the Monterey Institute.
- Inviting senior current and former trade policy officials to the Institute campus as guest lecturers.
Ambassador Alan Wolff leads Dewey & LeBoeuf’s International Trade Practice and is considered one of the foremost authorities on U.S. Trade Policy. He served as the former U.S. Deputy Trade Representative under the Carter Administration and has published numerous papers and co-authored books on trade and U.S. Trade Law. He received his B.A. from Harvard and his J.D. from Columbia University.
Ambassador Wolff — who served as United States deputy special representative for trade negotiations from 1977 to 1979, holding the rank of ambassador — is a longtime friend of the Institute, the parent of an alumnus, and served on the Institute’s board of trustees from 1992 through 2001. He has accepted an appointment as Distinguished Research Professor in the Graduate School of International Policy and Management at the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS) and director of the Institute’s new International Trade and Development Policy Initiative (ITDPI).
His full curriculum vitae can be viewed here.