• Dean Spinanger 
• Vincent Cheng 
  (Hong Kong)
• Philippa Dee
  (Melbourne)
• Chris Findlay
  (Canberra)
• David Greenaway
  (Nottingham)
• Jan Haaland
  (Bergen)
• Thomas Hertel
  (Purdue)
• Patrick Messerlin
  (Paris)
• James Riedel
  (Nanjing)
• Kenneth Reinert
  (George Mason Univ.)
• Kara Reynolds
  (American Univ.)
• Ian Wooton
  (Glasgow)
• Stephen Yeo
  (London)



Laura M. Baughman, President of and , directs the research activities of both firms. She testifies before various U.S. government agencies regarding the likely impacts on competitiveness of prospective or actual trade policies. Baughman prepares the economic analysis required for countervailing duty and antidumping complaints, Section 201, 301 and 332 investigations, and Generalized System of Preferences requests. She also conducts research in the field of textiles and apparel. Baughman holds degrees in economics from Georgetown (1977) and Columbia (1978) Universities. Click here for a copy of her resume.


Dr. Joseph F. Francois, Managing Director of , specializes in assessing the economic effects of trade policies and actions. These include bilateral and multilateral trade liberalization, the imposition of antidumping or countervailing duty orders, or quotas and tariffs resulting, for example, from a safeguard action. He authored the U.S. International Trade Commission’s COMPAS model during his tenure at the ITC’s Office of Economics, and directed the modeling team at the GATT/WTO during the Uruguay Round. Francois models the economic effects of pending trade agreements, and the impacts on all sectors of an economy of various trade actions or programs. Francois holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Maryland (1988). Click here for a copy of his resume.