William T. Waren
Bill Waren is Policy Director of the Forum on Democracy and Trade, and an Adjunct Professor at the Harrison Institute of Public Law, Georgetown University Law Center. Bill speaks and writes frequently about the effect on local democratic institutions of the World Trade Organization, the North American Free Trade Agreement, and similar international trade and investment agreements. Bill also serves as a consultant to the Andean Parliament, the Parliamentary Confederation of the Americas (COPA), and the United Nations Commission on Latin America and the Caribbean. Bill came to the Forum and Georgetown from the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) where he served as a Senior Fellow and Federal Affairs Counsel, contributing to NCSL’s policy research and lobbying on a range of state-federal issues, including issues of civil justice, criminal justice, constitutional federalism, economic regulation, and international trade. Bill also coordinated NCSL’s Supreme Court amicus filings, working through the State and Local Legal Center.
Over a long career, Bill also worked in the Durham, North Carolina City Attorney’s Office, as a staffer for the Illinois General Assembly, as a lobbyist for a public university system, and as a VISTA volunteer in Des Moines, Iowa. Bill grew up in rural downstate Illinois. He received his B.A. in political science and his M.A. in public administration from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He also took a J.D. from the Duke University School of Law and an LL.M. from the Georgetown University Law Center.
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