State and Future of Trade Integration in the Americas
Student Event
Dr. Kati Suominen
International Trade Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank
April 09, 2008
3:30 - 4:30 pm
Location: TBC
Open to: Students
Kati Suominen has served since 2003 as international trade specialist at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, where she leads team research projects on global and preferential trade issues and coordinates inter-institutional initiatives with the Asian Development Bank, UN University, and the World Trade Organization.
Suominen has spoken on trade and economic integration issues at such venues as the World Bank, World Trade Organization, US International Trade Commission, Peterson Institute for International Economics, United Nations Secretariat, UNCTAD conferences, European Commission, Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association, and Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conferences, and lectured at the George Washington University, American University’s School of International Service, Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, and School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.
Her articles have appeared in numerous books, including The Emergence of China: Opportunities and Challenges for Latin America and the Caribbean (Harvard University Press, 2006), and The Origin of Goods: A Conceptual and Empirical Assessment of Rules of Origin in PTAs (Oxford University Press and CEPR, 2006), and such peer-reviewed journals as Economia of the Brookings Institution, American Journal of Political Science, and World Economy. She is currently co-authoring and editing a number of books, including Regional Rules in the Global Trading System Trade Agreements (IDB-WTO book published by the Cambridge University Press, 2008); Gatekeepers of Commerce: Rules of Origin in Trade Agreements (IDB, 2008); Governing Regional Integration: Monitoring Trade Agreements around the World (Ashgate, 2008); Sovereign Remedy? Leveraging Trade Agreements in Globalization; and The Rise of India: Implications to Latin America and the Caribbean.
Suominen is a candidate at the Wharton School’s MBA Program for Executives class of 2009. She holds a Ph.D. in political science and international relations from the University of California, San Diego (2004), M.A. in international relations from Boston University (1996), and B.A. in political science and international relations from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (1995), where she held a full tennis scholarship and was a captain in an NCAA Division I team.
Prior to her Ph.D. work, Suominen served in administrative and research capacities at the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington and the Institute for European-Latin American Affairs in Madrid, and as a consultant for the US Institute for Peace and contributor to Oxford Analytica Daily Briefs.
Suominen is the founder and chair of the Wharton Club Roundtables on International Trade and Finance, and directs the UCSD Alumni Association’s Foreign Policy Roundtable Series in Washington. She is a member of the Washington International Trade Association, Washington World Affairs Council, Women in International Trade, and US Tennis Association. She is fluent in English, Spanish, Swedish, and Finnish, and proficient in Portuguese, German and French.
Suominen has spoken on trade and economic integration issues at such venues as the World Bank, World Trade Organization, US International Trade Commission, Peterson Institute for International Economics, United Nations Secretariat, UNCTAD conferences, European Commission, Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association, and Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conferences, and lectured at the George Washington University, American University’s School of International Service, Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, and School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.
Her articles have appeared in numerous books, including The Emergence of China: Opportunities and Challenges for Latin America and the Caribbean (Harvard University Press, 2006), and The Origin of Goods: A Conceptual and Empirical Assessment of Rules of Origin in PTAs (Oxford University Press and CEPR, 2006), and such peer-reviewed journals as Economia of the Brookings Institution, American Journal of Political Science, and World Economy. She is currently co-authoring and editing a number of books, including Regional Rules in the Global Trading System Trade Agreements (IDB-WTO book published by the Cambridge University Press, 2008); Gatekeepers of Commerce: Rules of Origin in Trade Agreements (IDB, 2008); Governing Regional Integration: Monitoring Trade Agreements around the World (Ashgate, 2008); Sovereign Remedy? Leveraging Trade Agreements in Globalization; and The Rise of India: Implications to Latin America and the Caribbean.
Suominen is a candidate at the Wharton School’s MBA Program for Executives class of 2009. She holds a Ph.D. in political science and international relations from the University of California, San Diego (2004), M.A. in international relations from Boston University (1996), and B.A. in political science and international relations from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (1995), where she held a full tennis scholarship and was a captain in an NCAA Division I team.
Prior to her Ph.D. work, Suominen served in administrative and research capacities at the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington and the Institute for European-Latin American Affairs in Madrid, and as a consultant for the US Institute for Peace and contributor to Oxford Analytica Daily Briefs.
Suominen is the founder and chair of the Wharton Club Roundtables on International Trade and Finance, and directs the UCSD Alumni Association’s Foreign Policy Roundtable Series in Washington. She is a member of the Washington International Trade Association, Washington World Affairs Council, Women in International Trade, and US Tennis Association. She is fluent in English, Spanish, Swedish, and Finnish, and proficient in Portuguese, German and French.
