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Howard Rosen

Howard Rosen is Executive Director of the Trade Adjustment Assistance Coalition, which he established in 2002.  The Coalition advocates on behalf of workers, farmers and fishermen, firms and communities adversely affected by changes in international trade and investment.  Rosen assisted in drafting provisions, included in the Trade Act of 2002, which significantly reformed and expanded the Trade Adjustment Assistance program.

Rosen also currently serves as a Visiting Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.  Rosen has served as Minority Staff Director of the Congressional Joint Economic Committee, and Executive Director of the Competitiveness Policy Council.  Prior to that he was Research Associate and later Assistant Director of the Institute for International Economics, and an economist in the Research Department of the Bank of Israel in Jerusalem and in the Bureau of International Labor Affairs in the US Department of Labor.  He has consulted to the Senate Finance Committee, the Agency for International Development, the Inter-American Development Bank, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the Business Roundtable and Data Resources, Inc.

Mr. Rosen received his BA and MA in economics from the George Washington University, where he concentrated on international economics.