Contact: Carmen MacDougall, 202-939-2319, cmacdougall@ceip.org 

 

Note to Reporters and Producers Covering Fast Track Vote:

Top Expert Available:
John Audley, Former Trade Policy Coordinator at the EPA

WHAT: The House is expected to vote on the fast track trade bill on Thursday, December 6. John Audley, senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, is a trade expert who has followed this issue closely, wants fast track passed, but also wants environment and labor issues included in the bill.

WHO: John Audley directs the Trade, Environment, and Development Project. He served as trade policy coordinator at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from April 1999 to March 2001, during which time he developed and presented EPA?s positions on U.S. trade policy and helped negotiate the U.S.-Jordan Free Trade Agreement. Previously, Audley was international affairs director of the National Wildlife Federation. He is the author of Green Politics and Global Trade (Georgetown University, 1997).

Check the Carnegie Endowment?s web site at www.ceip.org/audley to see his bio and recent publications, including:

  • A Greener Fast Track: Putting Environmental Protection on the Trade Agenda, Carnegie Endowment working paper
  • Letter to United States Trade Representative Robert Zoellick urging him to consider the environment in fast track trade promotion authority (in English and Spanish)
  • "Celebrate the U.S.-Jordan Free Trade Agreement," commentary on the Senate?s passage of this trade agreement
  • "New Rules in International Trade," commentary on the WTO meeting in Qatar
  • "Overhauling the WTO," policy brief by Audley and Ann Florini.

CONTACT: John Audley can be reached by phone at 202-939-2290 or through his assistant, Savina Rupani, at 202-939-2340.

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