This person is no longer with the Carnegie Endowment.
He directed the Trade, Equity, and Development Project. Before joining the Carnegie Endowment, Audley was the trade policy coordinator at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). There, he was responsible for developing and presenting EPA’s positions on U.S. trade policy. He won a silver medal from the agency for his work on two documents: “Environmental Reviews of Trade Agreements,” an executive order, and “The White House Policy Paper on Trade and Environment.”
Before he served at the EPA, Audley was international affairs director of the National Wildlife Federation, where he worked for two years. He has taught on environment, public policy, and other subjects at Georgetown University, Purdue University, and the University of Maryland.
Education: M.A., American Graduate School of International Management; M.A., University of Arizona; Ph.D., University of Maryland
Selected Publications: "NAFTA's Promise and Reality: Lessons from Mexico for the Hemisphere," with Sandra Polaski, Demetrios G. Papademetriou, and Scott Vaughan, Carnegie Endowment Report (2003); "Decoding Cancun: Hard Decisions for a Development Round," with George Perkovisch, Sandra Polaski, and Scott Vaughan, Carnegie Policy Brief No. 26 (2003); "Strengthening Linkages Between U.S. Trade Policy and Environmental Capacity Building," with Vanessa Ulmer, Carnegie Working Paper No. 40 (2003); "Environment's New Role in U.S. Trade Policy," Trade, Equity, and Development Policy Brief No. 3 (2002)
This report from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace examines the impact of NAFTA after ten years.
WTO negotiators will meet in Cancun, Mexico, in September amid competing claims regarding what steps are necessary to make trade serve development goals. The authors outline the policies that governments and international institutions will need to avoid a debacle at Cancun and to assist developing countries in achieving long-lasting growth.
Attention to trade-related technical assistance and capacity building has surged as people from all walks of life explore how the global trade regime can be structured to better promote equitable, sustainable human development.
For the first time, Congress made the environment a principal negotiating objective, challenging the administration the executive branch to incorporate environmental provisions directly into trade agreements, and to strengthen our trading partner's capacity to protect the environment and human health.
Get involved in the planned Americas Trade and Sustainable Development Forum (ATSDF)
One of the important lessons to learn from trade and environment linkages is that integrating environment into trade agreements is not a "one size fits all" task. Each negotiation involves countries at different levels of development and requires individually tailored responses.
A panel discussion held on the occasion of the awarding of the King Baudouin International Development Prize to Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International (FLO).