Ernest Preeg

Ernest H. Preeg is Senior Advisor for International Trade and Finance at the Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI.  His recent reports include “Free Trade Agreements in Asia: U.S. Exports at Risk and Much More”, “A Resurgent Trade Imbalance in Manufactures: The United States and China at Center Stage”, and “Restoring Bretton Woods: An International Economic System Overtaken by Success”.  He is also a member of the Advisory Council of the Korea Economic Institute of America and chairman of the Haiti Democracy Project.

Ambassador Preeg has long experience in government, specializing in International trade, finance, and development.  His government positions include Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Finance and Development, White House Executive Director of the Economic Policy Group, Chief Economist of the U.S. Agency for International Development, and American Ambassador to Haiti.  His think tank positions include the Scholl Chair in International Business at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, and his current position at MAPI.

He is the author of 20 books, including, Traders and Diplomats: The Uruguay Round and the Future of the International Trading System (University of Chicago Press, 1995), The Trade Deficit, the Dollar, and the U.S. National Interest (Hudson Institute, 2000), The Emerging Chinese Advanced Technology Superstate (MAPI and the Hudson Institute, 2005), and India and China: An Advanced Technology Race and How the United States Should Respond (MAPI and CSIS, 2008).

He is a frequent media commentator.

His first career was in the U.S. Merchant Marines, rising from ordinary Seaman to Chief Mate, and he holds a Ph.D. in economics from the New School for Social Research.