Clyde Prestowitz

Clyde Prestowitz is the author of the bestselling and critically acclaimed books Trading Places, Rogue Nation, and Three Billion New Capitalists. He served in the Reagan administration as counselor to the Secretary of Commerce and as a principal trade negotiator for Asia. He was also vice chairman of President Clinton's Commission on Trade and Investment in the Asia-Pacific Region. The founder of the Economic Strategy Institute in Washington, D.C., Prestowitz advises governments, global corporations, and labor unions on competitiveness and globalization strategy. He has written hundreds of articles and op-eds in the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Washington Post, the Economist, and other leading publications over the past twenty-five years based on his experiences both in the corporate world and in government. He lives in Washington, D.C.