

Thomas J. Duesterberg is a senior fellow at Hudson Institute and an expert on trade, manufacturing, economics, and foreign policy.
Thomas J. Duesterberg is a senior fellow at Hudson Institute. An expert of trade, manufacturing, economics, and foreign policy, Dr. Duesterberg leads project work on trade with Europe and China, reform of the World Trade Organization (WTO), global competition in advanced technologies such as 5G, and the strength of the United States manufacturing sector.
Previously, Dr. Duesterberg was executive director of the Manufacturing and Society in the Twenty-First Century Program at the Aspen Institute. From 1999 to 2011 he served as president and CEO of the Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI, an economic research and executive education organization based in Virginia. He was also director of the Washington office of Hudson Institute, assistant secretary for international economic policy at the US Department of Commerce, chief of staff to Rep. Chris Cox and Sen. Dan Quayle, and associate instructor at Stanford University. He co-wrote US Manufacturing: The Engine of Growth in a Global Economy and three other books, and is the author of over 300 articles in journals and major newspapers. He is on the Board of Advisors of the Manufacturing Public Policy Initiative at Indiana University's School of Public and Environmental Affairs, and the Board of Trustees of the American University of Rome. He is a graduate of Princeton University (BA) and Indiana University (MA, PhD).
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The United States must have secure, reliable, and scalable supply chains for critical supplies and technologies. For decades there has been an overrel
Many have paid attention to American efforts to partially decouple from China, but Beijing has been pursuing a much more extensive economic decoupling
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Experts discuss challenges in cybersecurity
Experts discuss the EU, U.S., and China
Experts discuss WTO reform
A discussion addressing questions about the impact of state subsidies and other directed benefits on the international aviation market
Thomas J. Duesterberg, Harold Furchtgott-Roth, Shane Tews, and Carolyn Bartholomew discuss U.S. competitiveness in wireless technology.
David Malpass, Kenneth R. Weinstein, and Thomas J. Duesterberg will discuss U.S. economic competitiveness in a globalized economy.
Hudson Institute hosts discussion on the Kigali Amendment.
Thomas J. Duesterberg, Brendan Brown, Benjamin Haddad, and Peter Rough discuss transatlantic trade, monetary policy, and the NATO military alliance.