About the authors

Eric Barry

ERIC BARRY IS PRESIDENT of the Canadian Textiles Institute-the national trade association of the Canadian textile manufacturing industry-and has been actively involved as an industry advisor in a number of trade negotiations including the Multifibre Arrangement, the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations, and the North American Free Trade Agreement. From 1986 to 1988 Mr. Barry was a member of the Textiles, Footwear and Leather Sectoral Advisory Group on International Trade (SAGIT), its chairman from 1988 to 1991, and is now chairman of the Textiles, Fur and Leather SAGIT. Since 1988, he has been a member of the International Trade Advisory Committee (ITAC).

He received his B.A. from Sir George Williams University, Montreal. From 1977 to 1983, Eric Barry was a member of the Standards Council of Canada. He is the author of more than 100 articles in business publications in Canada, the U.S., and Europe.

John Chant

JOHN CHANT IS PROFESSOR and Chair of Economics at Simon Fraser University where he specializes in monetary economics. He has served as research director of the Financial Group at the Economic Council of Canada, producing the study Efficiency and Regulation which served as background for the 1980 Bank Act. He is author of several books including The Economics of the Canadian Financial System: Theory, Policy and Institutions, The Allocative Effects of Inflation, and The Market for Financial Services. An expert on the regulation of financial institutions in Canada, Dr. Chant has served as a consultant to the Bank of Canada, the World Bank, the Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects of Canada and other government departments and agencies.

Michael Gestrin

MICHAEL GESTRIN IS A POLICY ANALYST and lecturer in international business at the University of Toronto. His recent research has included studies of European and American corporate response to administered protectionism. Mr. Gestrin has an M.A. in economics from the University of Toronto and has travelled and worked extensively in Europe and Asia.

Steven Globerman

STEVEN GLOBERMAN HOLDS A PH.D. in economics and is currently professor of economics at Simon Fraser University and Adjunct Scholar at The Fraser Institute. He has served on the Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration at the University of British Columbia, the Faculty of Administrative Studies at York University, and the Faculty of Business Administration at Simon Fraser University. He has consulted for government agencies and private sector organizations and has published over 50 journal articles and 15 books and monographs on various aspects of economics and public policy.

Thomas Grennes

THOMAS GRENNES IS PROFESSOR of economics at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, and research fellow at the Independent Institute in Oakland, California. He undertook graduate work in economics at the University of Chicago, and he is the author of the books The Economics of World Grain Trade (with P. Johnson and M. Thursby), and International Economics, and is the editor of International Financial Markets and Agricultural Trade. A contributor to many scholarly volumes, his many articles and reviews have appeared in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Journal of World Trade Law, World Economy, Journal of International Money and Finance, Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture, and other journals.

Jon Johnson

JON R. JOHNSON IS A PARTNER in the Toronto law firm of Goodman & Goodman (internationally Goodman Freeman Phillips & Vineberg). He graduated from the University of Toronto Law School in 1968 and was admitted to the Bar of the Province of Ontario in 1970. In 1980, Mr. Johnson received his LLM in Business Law from Osgoode Hall Law School.

As a legal advisor in Canada's Trade Negotiation Office, he participated in the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement with respect to automotive provisions. Mr. Johnson has advised External Affairs Canada in connection with various FTA Rules of Origin issues, and currently advises External Affairs Canada respecting the NAFTA Rules of Origin and related issues. He is the co-author of The Free Trade Agreement: A Comprehensive Guide (Canada Law Book, 1988). His recent papers include "The Effect of the Canada-U.S Free Trade Agreement on the Auto Pact," being published in Maureen Appel Molot, ed., Driving Continentally: Will the NAFTA Fix Honda? The Canada-United States Free Trade Newsletter, vol. 3, no. 2, Summer 1992, and "The NAFTA Rules of Origin-A New Approach?" in The Canadian Law Newsletter, October, 1992.

Peter Morici

PETER MORICI IS A PROFESSOR of Economics and Director of the Canadian-American Center at the University of Maine. Prior to joining the University in 1988, he served as Vice President of the National Planning Association where he is now an adjunct Senior Fellow. He is the author of eight books and many journal articles on trade policy, North American integration, and Canadian-American relations. His recent efforts include Trade Talks with Mexico: A Time for Realism (Washington, D.C.: National Planning Association, 1991) and Making Free Trade Work: The Canada-U.S. Agreement (New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1990).

Rogelio Ramirez De la O

Rogelio Ramirez De la O holds a Ph.D. in economics from Cambridge University (Fitzwilliam College) and a B.A. in economics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. His specialization and doctoral dissertation on foreign direct investment in Mexico was published in 1983 in a less technical form, entitled, "From Improvisation to Failure-The Policy of Foreign Investment in Mexico." He has published numerous other works on international investment, foreign trade, and in recent years, Mexican economic policy.

He is the sole partner and president of Ecanal, S.A. (Economic Analysis for Company Planning), a firm whose periodic analysis of the Mexican economy and government policy is directed at major corporate clients, including some of the largest multinational firms. Ecanal has been publishing the monthly Economic Report on Mexico and the quarterly Special Report on Mexico since it was founded in 1977 by the British economist, the late Dr. Rodvers Opie.

Before joining Ecanal, Dr. Ramirez worked for two years at the United Nations Centre for Transnational Corporations in New York, where he researched the influence of transnational corporations on the balance of payments and on intra-firm international trade.

He is a member of the American Economic Association and the Royal Economic Society, advisor to top management of several multinational firms, and provost of the University of the Americas.

Alan Rugman

ALAN M. RUGMAN IS PROFESSOR OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS at the University of Toronto. Previously, he has held tenured appointments at Dalhousie University and the University of Winnipeg. He has also been a visiting professor at Columbia Business School, London Business School, and Harvard University.

His 16 books include: Multinationals in Canada (1980), Inside the Multinationals (1981), Business Strategies and Free Trade (ed. 1988), International Business in Canada (ed. 1989), Multinationals and Canada-United States Free Trade (1990).

Dr. Rugman was a member of Canada's International Trade Advisory Committee from 1986-88 while the Canada-U.S Free Trade Agreement was being negotiated. Since then he has served on the sectoral trade advisory committee for forest products.

As a leading authority in international business, Dr. Rugman served as Vice President of the Academy of International Business in 1989-90 and was elected a Fellow of the Academy in 1991. He has lectured widely across North America, in Western Europe and in East Asia.

Elizabeth Siwicki

ELIZABETH SIWICKI IS VICE PRESIDENT, trade policy, at the Canadian Textiles Institute, the national trade association representing Canadian textile manufacturers. As part of her work with CTI, Ms. Siwicki has been actively involved in a variety of trade policy related activities including the development of industry positions and advice to government officials on the Multifibre Arrangement, the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations, and the North American Free Trade Agreement. She is executive assistant to the chairman of the Textiles, Fur and Leather SAGIT.

Elizabeth Siwicki has a B.A. in Communications from Concordia University, Montreal, and an M.B.A. from McGill University, Montreal.

Michael A. Walker

Michael A. Walker is Executive Director of The Fraser Institute. Born in Newfoundland in 1945, he received his B.A. (summa) at St. Francis Xavier University in 1966 and his Ph.D. in economics at the University of Western Ontario in 1969. From 1969 to 1973 he worked in various research capacities at the Bank of Canada, Ottawa, and when he left in 1973 was Research Officer in charge of the Special Studies and Monetary Policy Group in the Department of Banking. Immediately prior to joining The Fraser Institute, Dr. Walker was Econometric Model Consultant to the Federal Department of Finance, Ottawa. Dr. Walker has also taught Monetary Economics and Statistics at the University of Western Ontario and Carleton University.

Dr. Walker writes regularly for daily newspapers and financial periodicals. His articles have also appeared in technical journals, including the Canadian Journal of Economics, Canadian Public Policy, Canadian Taxation and the Canadian Tax Journal. He has been a columnist in The Province, the Toronto Sun, The Ottawa Citizen, The Financial Post, the Sterling newspaper chain, and community newspapers across Canada.

He is an author, editor, and contributor to more than twenty books on economic matters, some of which include Balancing the Budget; Flat-Rate Tax Proposals; Reaction: The National Energy Program; Rent Control: A Popular Paradox; Unions and the Public Interest; Discrimination, Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity; Privatization: Theory and Practice; Trade Unions and Society; Privatization: Tactics and Techniques; and Freedom, Democracy and Economic Welfare.

Dr. Walker is a member of the Mont Pèlerin Society, the Canadian and American Economic Associations, and the International Association of Energy Economists.

G. Campbell Watkins

PRESIDENT OF THE CALGARY-BASED economic consulting firm DataMetrics Limited, Campbell Watkins is also Adjunct Professor of Economics at the University of Calgary. His involvement in economic research and policy spans a range of positions including Chief Economist at the Oil and Gas Conservation Board (1965-1969), Associate Economist at the Royal Bank of Canada (1970-1971), Director of Economic Studies at the Gas Arctic Group (1971-1072), and Petroleum Advisor to the Tanzanian Minister of Energy (1987). Dr. Watkins is Past President of the Economics Society of Alberta, Immediate Past President of the International Association for Energy Economics, fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, and member of the American Statistical Association. Dr. Watkins was a contributor to four earlier Fraser Institute books: Oil in the Seventies (1977); Reaction: The National Energy Program (1981); Petro Markets: Probing the Economics of Continental Energy (1989); and Breaking the Shackles: Deregulating Canadian Industry (1991).

Leonard Waverman

Dr. Waverman is a professor in the Department of Economics, University of Toronto, and director of the University's Centre for International Studies. He received his B.Com. and M.A. from the University of Toronto (1964 and 1965) and his Ph.D. from M.I.T. in 1969. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Essex, Stanford University, and the Sloan School at M.I.T.

Dr. Waverman specializes in industrial organization, and anti-trust, energy, and telecommunications economics. He has authored numerous scholarly works, was a board member of the Ontario Energy Board, and currently is a board member of the Ontario Telephone Service Commission. He has consulted widely in both Canada and the United States.

He is the editor of the Energy Journal and has been associate editor of the Canadian Journal of Economics. He has also served on the Executive Committee of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics.

Sidney Weintraub

SIDNEY WEINTRAUB IS DEAN RUSK PROFESSOR of International Affairs at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, the University of Texas at Austin, and distinguished visiting scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. He has written extensively about North American economic and political issues. His most recent books on this theme are A Marriage of Convenience: Relations Between Mexico and the United States (1990); and co-editor of U.S.-Mexican Industrial Integration: The Road to Free Trade (1991).

Gilbert Winham

GILBERT R. WINHAM IS THE ERIC DENNIS MEMORIAL PROFESSOR of Government and Political Science at Dalhousie University. He received a Diploma in International Law from the University of Manchester in 1965 and a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1968. He is a member of the federal government's International Trade Advisory Committee (ITAC) and chaired a task force of that body on GATT Institutional Reform. Professor Winham has served on three FTA Dispute Settlement panels and was a Research Co-ordinator for International Political Economy for the Macdonald Royal Commission. In 1990-91 Professor Winham served as the Claude T. Bissell Professor of Canadian-American Relations at the University of Toronto. He conducts training simulations of trade negotiations for developing country trade officers at the GATT on a semi-annual basis. Professor Winham has authored articles and books on international trade policy and negotiations, including International Trade and the Tokyo Round Negotiation, 1986; Trading with Canada: The Canada-US Free Trade Agreement, 1988; and The Evolution of International Trade Agreements, University of Toronto Press, 1992.

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