Edward Alden specializes in U.S. economic competitiveness, trade, and immigration policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he is the Bernard L. Schwartz senior fellow. He is the author of Failure to Adjust: How Americans Got Left Behind in the Global Economy (2016). He was previously a reporter, covering the NAFTA and WTO negotiations for Inside US Trade, and the George W. Bush administration’s trade policy for the Financial Times.
