trade Imbalance
Susan Aaronson is Research Associate Professor at the George Washington University Graduate School of Business and the Elliott School of International Affairs. She is also a Consultant to the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), a global initiative based in Norway, which helps citizens and policymakers in resource rich countries monitor and account for extractive industry revenues. Until July 2006, she was Senior Fellow and Director of Globalization Studies at the Kenan Institute, the Washington branch (now closed) of the Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina. From 2001-2004, Aaronson devised and directed a major study, funded by the Ford, UN and Levi Strauss Foundations, that examined how U.S. public policies can promote or undermine global corporate social responsibility. The project resulted in three reports on CSR in international markets; on CSR and Trade; and on CSR in China.
Aaronson is a frequent speaker on public understanding of globalization issues. She was a regular commentator on “All Things Considered” in 1994-1995, “Marketplace” from 1995-1998, and “Morning Edition,” 1998-2001. She has also appeared on CNN, the BBC, and PBS to discuss trade and globalization issues. She is the author of 6 books and numerous articles on trade, investment, business and human rights and other globalization issues.
Aaronson received her doctorate in economic history from Johns Hopkins University and a masters in International Affairs from Columbia University. She has also been a Guest Scholar in Economics at the Brookings Institution (1995-1999).
Aaronson serves on the Advisory Board for Business- Human Rights and is a pro-bono advisor to the UN Special Representative on Transnational Corporations and Human Rights; the ILO, and the Congressional Human Rights Caucus. She also advises the Presidential campaign of Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico.
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Jamie M. Zimmerman is Deputy Director of the Global Assets Project, a joint venture of the Asset Building Program at the New America Foundation and the Center for Social Development at Washington University in St. Louis. She is conceptualizing, building and managing the project, which aims to advance savings and asset-building policies and projects in the developing and developed world. Previously, Zimmerman was the Associate Director of Globalization Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, where she managed research and outreach efforts for the Human Rights and Trade Partnership Project and the Corporate Responsibility and Public Policies Project, both aimed at building awareness of the relationship between international trade, human rights, and corporate social responsibility.
Zimmerman has also served as an international trade consultant in Sao Paulo, Brazil, as well as worked with nonprofit micro-enterprise development groups in Urubamba, Peru.
She is a graduate of the University of Kentucky, where she also earned a master’s degree in international political economy and international development from the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce.
Ms. Zimmerman has spoken frequently on economic development and corporate social responsibility, both domestically and abroad, and her writing has appeared in Yale Global, Human Rights Quarterly, the Bangkok Post, the Microfinance Gateway, and the South China Morning Post.
Other Books and Articles by the Authors:
Books and Primers by Aaronson
Corporate Responsibility in the Global VIllage (with James Reeves)
Taking Trade to the Streets: the Lost History of Public Efforts to Shape Globalization
Trade and the American Dream
Redefining the Terms of Trade Policymaking
Trade is Everybody’s Business
Are there Trade Offs when Americans Trade?
Articles by
Aaronson and Zimmerman
Fair Trade? How Oxfam Presented a Systemic Approach to Poverty, Development, Human Rights, and Trade (2006, Human Rights Quarterly)
The WTO Can Promote Both Free Trade and Human Rights (Yale Global, 2006)
How to Jump Start the WTO (Yale Global, 2005)
The Authors are grateful for the support of:
The Levi Strauss Foundation,
the Pfizer, Unilever and Starbucks Corporations, and
the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
