Beyond the G7: The Dollars & Sense of Globalization & Trade - A View From the Left with Lori Wallach, Director, Public Citizens Global Trade Watch; books include: The Rise and Fall of Fast Track Trade Authority; Whose Trade Organization; A Comprehensive Guide to the WTO; recently Wallach was one of three panelists, alongside Chancellor Angela Merkel, at the C-20 Summit titled Civil 20 Dialogue with the G20 Presidency addressing the most pressing globalization challenges of the 2017 G20 Summit
Lori Wallach is the director of Public Citizens Global Trade Watch. She is a 25-year veteran of congressional trade battles starting with the 1990s fight over NAFTA, she was named to the Politicos 50 list of thinkers, doers and visionaries who transformed American politics in 2016 because of her leadership in the Trans-Pacific Partnership debate. Wallach is also an internationally recognized expert on trade with experience advocating in Congress and foreign parliaments, trade negotiations, courts,government agencies, the media and in the streets. Dubbed the Trade Debates Guerrilla Warrior in a National Journal profile and "Ralph Nader with a sense of humor" in a Wall Street Journal profile, she combines a lawyers expertise on the terms and outcomes of agreements with insight from the front lines of trade debates. Wallachs specialty is translating arcane trade issues into accessible language " from the role trade issues played in the 2016 election and the implications for the Trump presidency and 2018 congressional elections to Wallach helps making dollars and sense of issues for progressives.
produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
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