Economist Ian Fletcher is one of America’s foremost experts on the problems of free trade. He is the author of the 2011 book Free Trade Doesn’t Work and has a column on trade issues in the Huffington Post.
Ian Fletcher is Senior Economist of the Coalition for a Prosperous America, a 2.7-million member organization dedicated to fixing America’s trade policies and comprising representatives from business, agriculture, and labor. He was previously a Research Fellow with the U.S. Business and Industry Council, a Washington think tank. Before that, he was an economist in private practice, mostly serving hedge funds and private equity firms. Educated at Columbia University and the University of Chicago, he lives in San Francisco. Details about his book Free Trade Doesn’t Work may be found at freetradedoesntwork.com.
From 2010 to 2012, he was Senior Economist of the Coalition for a Prosperous America. Before that, he was Research Fellow at the U.S. Business and Industry Council. Before that, he was an economist in private practice serving mainly hedge funds and private equity firms.
Educated at Columbia and the University of Chicago, he lives in San Francisco.
CPA Speakers Bureau Member: Ian Fletcher is available to speak to the topics of:
- Trade and Free Trade Agreements
- Why free trade is bad
- Globalization/globalism
- What’s wrong with economics as a discipline.