Todd Tucker

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Todd Nathaniel Tucker (b. 1979, Louisville, KY) is a Washington, D.C.-based policy analyst who is research director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch[1] and primary blogger at Eyes on Trade. His work focuses on the legal, economic and political implications of the WTO, NAFTA, CAFTA and other trade agreements,[2] and also on U.S. foreign policy issues.[3] Tucker is a frequent media commentator on international economic and policy issues who has been cited and published by radio, print and Internet outlets such as the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, The Nation magazine, Foreign Policy In Focus, and others.

Prior to working at Global Trade Watch, Tucker was a policy analyst with the Center for Economic and Policy Research.[4] He completed graduate work in development economics at the University of Cambridge under economist Ha-Joon Chang, and received his B.A. from George Washington University in 2001.[5]

According to The Nation, Tucker was a leader of the United Students Against Sweatshops student movement[6] and Internet articles from 2000-01 have him listed as an organizer with the World Bank Bonds Boycott campaign. He has also been a leader in the movement to create staff trade unions at non-governmental organizations, according to a 2004 article from the National Organizer’s Alliance. According to a Washington Post article from 2001, Tucker was raised as the son of Baptist missionaries in Buenos Aires, Argentina. On March 31, 2007, Tucker married Heather Boushey, a senior economist at the Joint Economic Committee, according to the New York Times.[7]

[edit] External links

• Eyes on Trade Blog
• Papers by Todd Tucker for Global Trade Watch
• Alternet columns by Todd Tucker
• Papers by Todd Tucker for the Center for Economic and Policy Research
• Papers by Todd Tucker for Foreign Policy in Focus
• Tucker Paper on Venezuela for India’s Economic Research Foundation
• Todd Tucker, “My Job is to Save the Environment, Not Save My Job,” National Organizer’s Alliance, 2004.

[edit] References

• Evelyn Iritani, “Anti-trade feelings delay CAFTA,” Los Angeles Times, Jan. 9, 2006.
• Juliane von Reppert-Bismarck, “Trade Unionists Working Within the WTO: Protesters Take Message Directly to Negotiators,” Published in Washington Post & Wall Street Journal, Dec. 13, 2005.
• Mark Engler, “CAFTA’s Corpse Revived,” The Nation Magazine, March 1, 2006.
• Brian Scheid, “Report Says Fitzpatrick Rewarded for CAFTA Vote,” Bucks County Courier Times, Feb. 15, 2006.
• Valerie Strauss and Manny Fernandez, “Small Group Gathers to Protest IMF, World Bank,” Washington Post, April 30, 2001.
• Liza Featherstone, “Student Movement Comes of Age,” The Nation Magazine, Oct. 16, 2000.
• Article about Todd Tucker and World Bank Bonds Boycott campaign.