Bown Chad

Chad P. Bown is a Senior Economist in the Development Research Group of the World Bank in Washington, DC. He is currently on leave from Brandeis University where he is a tenured professor in the Department of Economics and International Business School. He is a Fellow at the Brookings Institution, a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and an Adviser to the American Law Institute project on the Principles of the Law of World Trade. He also currently serves as the Book Review Editor for the World Trade Review.

Bown’s recent research examines WTO dispute settlement, the international use of antidumping and safeguard trade policies and the integration of China, India and other developing countries into the global trading system. Since 2004, he has developed and managed a major trade policy transparency initiative resulting in the World Bank-sponsored Global Antidumping Database. Professor Bown’s two recently published  books are Self-Enforcing Trade: Developing Countries and  WTO Dispute Settlement (Brookings Institution Press, 2009) and The Law, Economics, and Politics of Trade Retaliation in WTO Dispute Settlement (co-edited with Joost Pauwelyn, Cambridge University Press, 2010). His recent research and commentary have been featured in outlets such as The Economist, Financial Times, and The Wall Street Journal.

Bown received a B.A. in Economics and International Relations from Bucknell University and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.