Geza Feketekuty

Bio

A graduate of Columbia and Princeton Universities in Economics, Mr. Feketekuty also completed the Advanced Management Program of the Harvard Business School.  He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.  In 1981, he received the Presidential Meritorious Executive Service Award.  

Mr. Feketekuty is a distinguished professor at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, where he developed an innovative new graduate degree program in Commercial Diplomacy.  He also serves as the Academic Director of  the Ron Brown Center for Politics and Commercial Diplomacy, and as President of the International Commercial Diplomacy Project, a non profit organization devoted to the development of training materials in commercial diplomacy.  He writes, lectures and consults on a wide range of trade policy topics, and provides customized training courses in the area of trade policy and international trade negotiations. He works closely with various international organizations such as the OECD, UNCTAD, and the World Bank in the development and delivery of training courses in trade policy management and negotiation. Mr. Feketekuty previously served with the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative for 21 years in various senior trade policy leadership positions. He played a central role in the conceptualization and development of U.S. trade policy and global trade negotiations over those two decades.

From 1992 to 1995 he served as the chairman of the OECD Trade Committee, which plays a key role in developing agreements among major developed countries on how to address new trade issues in multilateral negotiations.  He was formerly with the Council of Economic Advisors as Senior Staff Economist for International Finance and Trade, and with the Office of Management and Budget as an economist and budget examiner.  He has also been an Instructor in the Economics Department at Princeton University, a Visiting Professor at Cornell University, Adjunct Professor at the School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University.

Academic Background

  • Harvard Business School, Advanced Management Program           

  • Princeton University, M.A., "ABD", Economics                               

  • Columbia College, A.B., Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa  

Areas of Expertise

 Trade related aspects of:

  • Competition Policies

  • Regulatory Reform

  • Environmental Policies

  • Labor Standards

Present Position (s)

  • Professor at the Monterey Institute of International Studies

  • Academic Director of the Ron Brown Center for Politics and Commercial Diplomacy

  • President of the International Commercial Diplomacy Project

  • Senior Policy Advisor to the U.S. Trade Representative  

Previous Position (s)

  • MONTEREY INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, 1995-1998

             Director, Center for Trade and Commercial Diplomacy

  • OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES TRADE REPRESENTATIVE,  1974 - 1995

Senior Policy Advisor to the U.S. Trade Representative,  1990 - Present
Counselor to the U.S. Trade Representative,  1985 - 1990
Senior Assistant U.S. Trade Representative, 1982 - 1985
Assistant U.S. Trade Representative, 1978 - 1982
Director for Trade Analysis and Policy Planning, 1974 - 1978

  • INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION,  1990-1992

Scholar-in-Residence

  •  COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISORS, 1972 - 1974

           Senior Staff Economist for International Trade and Finance

  • OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET,  1968 - 1972

Budget Examiner, International Economist

  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, Professorial Lecturer , 1980 - 1983  

  • CORNELL UNIVERSITY, Visiting Professor, 1967 - 1968  

  • PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, Instructor, 1965 - 1967  

  • BOOK OF THE MONTH CLUB, 1959 - 1965

Consultant,  1962 - 1965
Statistical Analyst, 1960 - 1962
Data Processing Machine Operator, 1959 - 1960

Other Activities and Memberships

  • Write lectures and consults on a wide range of trade policy topics, and provides customized training courses in the area of trade policy and international trade negotiations.

  • Work closely with various international organizations such as the OECD, UNCTAD, and the World Bank in the development and delivery of training courses in trade policy management and negotiation.

Publications

Publications Edited

  • Trade Strategies For A New Era, edited with Bruce Stokes. New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1997

  • Annual Report of the President on Trade Agreements Program, Project Director, 19881-82, 1983, 1984-85.

  • U.S. National Study on Trade in Services, Editor and Co-author, USTR: Washington, D.C., 1983.

  • The American Economist, (Journal of the National Honor Society in Economics), Editor-in-Chief, 1961-1966.

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Books and Monographs

  • The new Trade Agenda, Occasional Paper 40, Washington, DC : The Group of Thirty, Washington, DC, 1992

  • International Trade in Services: An Overview and Blueprint for Negotiations, Cambridge, Mass.: Ballinger for The American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C., 1988.

Some Recent Articles

  • A Framework for Global TradeServices, in E-Commerce- From Barriers to Solutions, I-Ways, Fourth Quarter 1998, Fairfax Station, Virginia: Transnational Data Reporting Service, 1998.

  • Setting the Agenda for the Next Round of Negotiations on Trade in Services, in Launching New Global Trade Talks: An Action Agenda, Jeffrey J. Schott (ed), Washington, DC : Institute For International Economics, 1998.

  • Trade in Services – Bringing Services into the Multilateral Trading System, in The Uruguay Round and Beyond : Essays in Honour of Arthur Dunkel. Jagdish Bhagwati and Matthias Hirsch (eds). Berlin : Springer Verlag, 1998

  • A Personal Interpretation of the Debate and the Task Ahead, in Regulatory Reform in the Global Economy. Paris : OECD, 1998

  • Defining Subsidiarity in the Global Economic System: Economic, Legal and Political Criteria, forthcoming in a volume to be published by the Royal Institute of International Affairs, London, UK.

  • The Role of Regional and Global Institutions in International Regulatory Integration, in Towards Rival Regionalism? US and EU Regional Regulatory Regime Building, Jens van Scherpenberg and Elke Thiel (eds.) Baden-Baden : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 1998.

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