Lori Wallach

Lori Wallach (born 1965) is the Director of Rethink Trade at the American Economic Liberties Project and a senior advisor to the Citizens Trade Campaign, the U.S. labor-environment-faith-consumer-family farm coalition. She launched Public Citizen's trade program in 1991, and founded Global Trade Watch (GTW), a division of Public Citizen,[1] in 1995, leading GTW until 2021. Wallach has testified before Congress about the effects of NAFTA, WTO, and other trade policies.

Lori Wallach
Personal details
Born1965 (age 57–58)
EducationWellesley College (BA)
Harvard University (JD)

Education and early career

Wallach, a native of Wisconsin, is Jewish and was born in 1964.[2] She graduated from Wellesley College in 1986 with a B.A. in political science. She then attended Harvard Law School, where she received her J.D. in 1990. Wallach attended Harvard at the same time as Michael Froman, a future Trade Representative; the two have been described as long-time rivals by The New York Times.[3] Before starting her role in 1995 at Public Citizen, she had worked on Capitol Hill, on electoral campaigns, and in television news.

Career

Wallach was an opponent of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), arguing that the TPP would lead to job losses in over a dozen sectors while only delivering "miniscule gains in economic growth." Wallach criticized the methodology of a study that found the TPP would benefit the U.S. economically.[4] In 2012, Wallach described the TPP as "NAFTA on steroids", deriding the proposal as a "corporate Trojan horse".[5]

In a 2021 op-ed for the Washington Post, Wallach endorsed waiving intellectual property (IP) restrictions on COVID-19 vaccines in order to boost the global vaccination effort.[6]

Recognition

Wallach has appeared on MSNBC, CNN, NPR, ABC, CNBC, Fox News, PBS, Bloomberg TV, BBC and C-SPAN. In addition, she has been quoted extensively in publications such as The New York Times, The Economist, Forbes, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, USA Today, Bloomberg, and The National Journal. She is also a frequent contributor to the Huffington Post, Democracy Now, and PBS.[7][8][9]

She has been described by the Wall Street Journal as, "Ralph Nader with a sense of humor" and was dubbed "the Trade Debate's Guerrilla Warrior" in a National Journal profile.[10] In 2016, she was named by Politico as one of 50 "thinkers, doers and visionaries, transforming American politics."[11] Representative Rosa DeLauro praised Wallach's "granular knowledge" and stated that Wallach is her "source of information and knowledge."[12]

Publications
  • 1999: The WTO: Five Years of Reasons to Resist Corporate Globalization ISBN 978-1583220351
  • 2004: Whose Trade Organization?: The Comprehensive Guide to the WTO ISBN 978-1565848412
  • 2013: The Rise and Fall of Fast Track Trade Authority - Updated and Expanded Edition ISBN 978-1582310527[13]

References
  1. "Global Trade Watch Staff Directory". Public Citizen. Retrieved May 27, 2014.
  2. "Harvard Alumnus Profile". Harvard Law Bulletin. Retrieved May 27, 2014.
  3. Weisman, Jonathan (April 27, 2015). "Trans-Pacific Partnership Puts Harvard Law School Rivals on Opposite Sides, Again". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 30, 2021.
  4. Geewax, Marilyn (May 19, 2016). "Report Says Trade Deal Would Boost U.S. Economy, But Opponents Say No". NPR. Retrieved October 30, 2021.
  5. Wallach, Lori (June 27, 2012). "NAFTA on Steroids". The Nation. ISSN 0027-8378. Retrieved October 30, 2021.
  6. Stiglitz, Joseph; Wallach, Lori (April 26, 2021). "Opinion: Preserving intellectual property barriers to covid-19 vaccines is morally wrong and foolish". Washington Post.
  7. "Huffington Post Contributor Profile". Huffington Post. Retrieved May 27, 2014.
  8. "Democracy Now Appearances". Democracy Now. Retrieved May 27, 2014.
  9. "PBS Commanding Heights Profile". PBS. Retrieved May 27, 2014.
  10. Lori Wallach, Director, Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch citizen.org
  11. Wexler, Celia (November 30, 2020). "Has Fair Trade Advocate Lori Wallach's Time Finally Come?". Blue Tent. Retrieved October 25, 2021.
  12. Weisman, Jonathan (April 27, 2015). "Trans-Pacific Partnership Puts Harvard Law School Rivals on Opposite Sides, Again". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 30, 2021.
  13. "The Rise and Fall of Fast Track Trade Authority". Archived from the original on March 23, 2010. Retrieved March 18, 2020.
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