Annual Meeting

Curriculum Vitae

J. MICHAEL FINGER is resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC. He is well known for his work on the functioning of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade/World Trade Organization system and how that system relates to development. He was one of the first to recognize and analyze the Uruguay Round "implementation problem." Previously, he served as lead economist and chief, Trade Policy Research Group, World Bank, and was the World Bank's initial coordinator for the Integrated Framework. He has held key positions at the US Treasury Department and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, as well as teaching at the University of Bern, the Stockholm School of Economics, and Duke University. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of North Carolina.