BIOGRAPHY
Thomas L. Brewer is the author of the forthcoming book The United States in a Warming World: The Political Economy of Government, Business and Public Responses to Climate Change. He is working on a book tentatively titled International Trade and Global Climate Change. He is presently a Schoeller Foundation Research Fellow at Friedrich Alexander University, Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany. He is also a recurrent Visiting Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University. He is an Associate Fellow of the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels, and an emeritus faculty member of Georgetown University in Washington, DC.
He is a Lead Author for the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group III chapter on International Cooperation. He is also a member of the Panel of Experts for the Environmental Assessment of the North American Free Trade Agreement, a project of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) of NAFTA.
His research focuses on the intersections of climate change issues with international trade, technology transfer and investment issues. He is the editor and author of the introduction to a symposium on the intersection of international trade issues and climate trade issues in the refereed journal The World Economy (June 2010). His publications include numerous articles in the refereed journals Climate Policy and Energy Policy, as well as chapters in books published by the Brookings Institution, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press and other leading publishers. He has made presentations at The Brookings Institution in Washington, the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) in London, the European Commission and Parliament and the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels, the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) in Tokyo, the London embassy of the government of Japan, many COP/MOP climate change conferences, the Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome, the World Bank in Washington, DC, and conferences of the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) in Geneva and Shanghai, as well other conferences for academic, business and government audiences. For five years, he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International Business Studies, a leading academic journal for interdisciplinary social science studies. He has been a consultant to the World Bank (including IFC and MIGA), the United Nations (UNCTAD), and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). He can be reached by email at brewert@georgetown.edu.
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