
Philip I. Levy, Ph.D., teaches international trade at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and works as a consultant for the World Bank. He has particular expertise in economic relations with China, the euro zone crisis, U.S. trade policy, and U.S. foreign assistance ...
Philip I. Levy, Ph.D., teaches international trade at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and works as a consultant for the World Bank. He has particular expertise in economic relations with China, the euro zone crisis, U.S. trade policy, and U.S. foreign assistance programs.
He was previously a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and has testified before Congress on multiple occasions. From 2003 to 2006, he served first as senior economist for trade for President Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers and then as a member of Secretary of State Rice’s Policy Planning Staff, covering international economic matters.
Before working in government, he was a faculty member of Yale University’s Department of Economics for nine years and spent one of those as academic director of Yale’s Center for the Study of Globalization. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University in 1994 and his A.B. in Economics from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1988. He is a regular contributor to Foreign Policy magazine’s online Shadow Government section.