José Tavares

Bio

José Tavares is currently at the Ministry of Finance for the Government of Brazil.  He is also a partner of EcoStrat, a Brazilian consulting firm with expertise in the areas of trade, antitrust, regulatory reform and industrial organization. He is a Ph.D. from the University of London, a former Executive Secretary of the Brazilian Tariff Commission and the Chamber of Foreign Trade, a consultant to the OAS Trade Unit, a member of the Latin American Trade Network and the MERCOSUR Research Network. His previous positions include the Inter-American Development Bank, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
 

Academic Background

• Economist, Ph.D., University of London; Full Professor, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

Areas of Expertise

• Competition Policy - International Trade - Regional Integration - Regulatory Reform.

Present Positions

• Secretary for Economic Monitoring at the Ministry of Finance, Brasilia, Brazil

Previous Positions

• Organization of American States, Trade Unit, Consultant (Since July 1995) Brazilian Chamber of Foreign Trade, Executive Secretary (1995)

• Inter-American Development Bank, Economist (1993/1994)

• Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Trade Economist (1992)

• Brazilian Tariff Commission, Executive Secretary (July 1985/January 1988)

• Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Professor (August 1981/January 1992)

Other Activities and Memberships

• Latin American Trade Network (Member since 1997)

• Mercosur Research Network (Member of the Advisory Committee since 1999)

• Working Group on EU-Mercosur Trade Negotiations (Member since April 2000)

Recent Publications

1. "Trade and Competition in B2B Markets", mimeo., Washington, D.C., April 2001.
2. "Antidumping in the Americas", OAS Trade Unit Studies, Washington, D.C., March 2001.
3. "Competition Policy", in J.M. Salazar and M. Robert (eds.) (2001), Toward Free Trade in the Americas, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution.
4. "Competition Policy and the EU - Mercosur Trade Negotiations", Working Group on EU-Mercosur Trade Negotiations, Paris, May 2000. (Available at www.sice.oas.org).
5. "Schumpeterian Competition and its Policy Implications: The Latin American Case", Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 19, no. 4, December, 1999. (Available at www.sice.oas.org).
6. "A Integração Latino Americana na Primeira Década do Milênio", Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, (Forthcoming, 2001).
7. "Harmonization of Competition Policies Among Mercosur Countries", The Antitrust Bulletin, Vol. 43, no. 1, 1998.
8. "Trade, Transparency and Competition: FTAA and CER", Journal of Latin American Competition Policy, Vol. 1, Special Issue, December 1998. (Available at www.sice.oas.org).
9. "Competition Policy and Regional Agreements", in M. Rodriguez, P. Low and B. Kotschwar (eds.) (1999), Trade Rules in the Making: Challenges in regional and multilateral negotiations, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution.
10."The Free Trade Area of the Americas: A Latin American Perspective", in P. Lloyd and C. Milner (eds.), The World Economy: Global Trade Policy 1999.

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