What will globalisation look like after COVID-19?

Douglas Irwin is John French Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College. He is the author of numerous books, including Clashing over Commerce: A History of U.S. Trade Policy, which The Economist and Foreign Affairs selected as one of their Best Books of the Year. He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He worked on trade policy issues while on the staff of President Ronald Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisers and was in the International Finance Division at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington, DC.

Stephen Kirchner is Program Director Trade and Investment, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney. He is also a senior fellow at the Fraser Institute in Canada. Previously, he was an economist with the Australian Financial Markets Association, where he worked on public policy issues relating to the efficient and effective functioning of Australian financial markets and Australia’s position as a regional and international financial centre.