WITA Webinar: U.S. Industrial Policy, Subsidies, and Trade

With passage of the Chips and Science Act and the budget reconciliation bill, the U.S. will be spending hundreds of billions of dollars in the years to come to encourage investment in chip manufacturing and environmental technologies. The bills also provide billions more to fund scientific research and development, and to spur the innovation and development of other U.S. technologies.

Speaker Biographies:

Edward Alden is the Bernard L. Schwartz senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and Ross Distinguished Visiting Professor at Western Washington University, specializing in U.S. economic competitiveness, trade, and immigration policy. He is the author of the book "Failure to Adjust: How Americans Got Left Behind" in the Global Economy, which focuses on the federal government’s failure to respond effectively to competitive challenges on issues such as trade, currency, worker retraining, education, and infrastructure.

Robert D. Atkinson is the President of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. As founder and president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), recognized as the world’s top think tank for science and technology policy, Robert D. Atkinson leads a prolific team of policy analysts and fellows that is successfully shaping the debate and setting the agenda on a host of critical issues at the intersection of technological innovation and public policy.

Emily Kilcrease is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Energy, Economics, and Security Program at CNAS. Kilcrease previously served as a deputy assistant U.S. trade representative (USTR), overseeing the development, negotiation, and coordination of U.S. foreign investment policy. She served as the senior career staffer leading USTR’s work on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and coordinated USTR’s policy engagement on related national security and economic tools, including export controls and supply chain risk management.

Christine McDaniel is a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Clayton Yuetter Institute of International Trade and Finance at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her research focuses on international trade, globalization, and intellectual property rights.