Trade and Economics

Grant Aldonas, who holds the Scholl Chair in International Business, testified on trade and globalization before the House Ways and Means Committee.

Dr. Sidney Weintraub, who holds the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy, testified on NAFTA before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's Subcommittee on International Trade.

Ambassador Richard McCormack, a senior adviser at CSIS, testified May 16, 2006, on the role of financial risk, derivatives, and hedge funds in capital markets before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

Sidney Weintraub, the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy, testified Thursday, March 2, 2006, before the House International Relations Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere. Weintraub, provided an outlook on regional energy investment, and risks in hemispheric energy markets linked to political trends.