Inu Manak

Fellow for Trade Policy

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Renewing America and Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies

Rethinking International Rules on Subsidies

September 6, 2023

Expert Bio

Inu Manak is a fellow for trade policy at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). An expert in international political economy, Dr. Manak’s research focuses on U.S. trade policy and the law and politics of the World Trade Organization. At CFR, she researches and writes on trade politics and institutions, dispute settlement, and development. She is regularly called on to speak about the USMCA, WTO reform, subsidies and industrial policy, the intersection of trade and climate, and executive overreach on trade. In 2021, she published The Development Dimension: Special and Differential Treatment in Trade (Routledge Focus) with James Bacchus. She is currently writing a book about U.S. trade policy’s bipartisan shift toward protectionism.

Previously, Dr. Manak was a research fellow at the Cato Institute’s Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies and a junior visiting fellow at the Centre for Trade and Economic Integration at the Graduate Institute in Geneva.

Dr. Manak is a book review editor for World Trade Review and associate editor of the International Economic Law and Policy Blog. She is also a participating scholar in the Robert A. Pastor North America Research Initiative at American University. She serves on the advisory boards of the TradeExperettes and the Center on Inclusive Trade and Development at Georgetown Law.

Dr. Manak received a PhD in government from Georgetown University, an MA in international affairs from American University’s School of International Service, and a BA in political science (First Class Honors) from Simon Fraser University.

affiliations

World Trade Review, book review editor
International Economic Law and Policy Blog, associate editor
Robert A. Pastor North America Research Initiative, participating scholar
TradeExperettes, advisory board member
Center on Inclusive Trade and Development at Georgetown Law, advisory board member

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