Alternatives to Economic Globalization
Lori Wallach
Tuesday, 21 Oct 2008 at 6:00 pm – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall
Lori Wallach, Director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, is an internationally recognized expert on globalization and trade. A Harvard-trained lawyer with sixteen years of experience on the front lines of the globalization debate, she has testified on NAFTA, GATT-WTO and other trade issues before over thirty U.S. congressional committees, the U.S. International Trade Commission, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, foreign parliaments and courts. Wallach has worked with civil society, scholars, and activists in developing countries and with U.S. congressional, environmental, labor, and other allies. She has served as a trade policy commentator in the media and is the coauthor of Whose Trade Organization? A Comprehensive Guide to the WTO. Part of the Technology, Globalization and Culture Series and the World Affairs Series.This lecture was taped and broadcast as part of Iowa Public Television's Intelligent Talk Television. Watch it online: click here.
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- College of Engineering
- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Deere & Company
- Rockwell Collins
- World Affairs
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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