Biography of Speaker - Dr. Kent Hughes
The Woodrow Wilson Center For International Scholars
Director, Science, Technology, America, and the Global Economy
Email: kent.hughes@wilsoncenter.org

Affiliation
Director, Program on Science, Technology, America and the Global Economy

Expertise
International trade, finance, and the global economy; U.S. competitiveness and science and technology policy

Experience
Associate Deputy Secretary of Commerce; President, Council on Competitiveness; Chief Economist to Senate Majority Leader, Robert C. Byrd

Major Publications

  • "Are the Wheels Coming Off the American Auto Industry?" The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 14, 2006
  • Building the Next American Century: The Past and Future of Economic Competitiveness, (Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2005)
  • "R&D Can Keep America Competitive Amid New Challenges," Chronicle of Higher Education, November 30, 2001
  • "The Currency Conundrum," editor, Wilson Center, 2001
  • Trade Taxes and Transnationals: International Economic Decision Making in Congress, 1979
  • "Building the American Dream: Jobs, Innovation and Growth in America's Next Century," The 1996 Competitiveness Report of the U.S. Department of Commerce

Education
Ph.D., Economics, Washington University in St. Louis; LL.B. Harvard Law School; B.A., Political and Economic Institutions, Yale University

Honors
Woodrow Wilson Center Public Policy Scholar, International Legal Center Fellow, and Latin American Teaching Fellow

U.S. Department of Commerce