Today, the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) announced that Edward “Ed” Gresser will join PPI as the Vice President of Trade and Global Markets policy. Ed returns to PPI after working for the think tank from 2001-2011. He most recently served as the Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Trade Policy and Economics at the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR). In this position, he led USTR’s economic research unit from 2015-2021, and chaired the 21-agency Trade Policy Staff Committee.
“PPI is thrilled to welcome our erstwhile colleague Ed Gresser back after his years of distinguished service with the United States Trade Representative,” said Will Marshall, President of PPI. “Ed is one of America’s most trenchant analysts and writers on trade and global markets. Ed’s expertise and understanding of the vital role trade plays in ensuring a dynamic and competitive U.S. economy can help President Biden and pragmatic progressives in the administration undo the damage done by his predecessor’s detour into protectionism.”
Ed began his career on Capitol Hill before serving USTR as Policy Advisor to USTR Charlene Barshefsky from 1998 to 2001. He then led PPI’s Trade and Global Markets Project from 2001 to 2011. After PPI, he co-founded and directed the independent think tank ProgressiveEconomy until rejoining USTR in 2015. In 2013, the Washington International Trade Association presented him with its Lighthouse Award, awarded annually to an individual or group for significant contributions to trade policy.
Ed is the author of Freedom from Want: The Global Economy and American Liberalism (2007), and has been published in a variety of publications including the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, and U.S. News and World Report. He is a graduate of Stanford University and holds a Master’s Degree in International Affairs from Columbia Universities and a certificate from the Averell Harriman Institute for Advanced Study of the Soviet Union.
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