Thea Lee is Assistant Director for International Economics in the Public Policy Department of the AFL-CIO, where she oversees research on international trade and investment policy. Previously, she worked as an international trade economist at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, DC and as an editor at Dollars & Sense magazine in Boston. She received a Bachelors degree from Smith College and a Masters degree in economics from the University of Michigan.
Ms. Lee is co-author of A Field Guide to the Global Economy, recently published by the New Press. Her research projects include reports on the North American Free Trade Agreement and on the impact of international trade on the domestic steel and textile industries. She has testified before several committees of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate on various trade topics. She has also appeared on the MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour, C-Span, CNN, and numerous radio programs.
Articles written by this Advisory Committee Member for FPIF
Beyond Ping-Pong Diplomacy
Jul 30, 2008
Allied with Brazilian Agribusiness, Syngenta Resists Governor's Decree to Expropriate Site
May 17, 2007
Intelligence Questions in North Korea
Apr 29, 2004
Bush Administration's "Free Trade" Policies Lead to Trade Deficit, Job Loss
Feb 18, 2004
Global Justice Movement Is Not Dead
Jan 25, 2002
The CIA's Worst-Kept Secret: Newly Declassified Files Confirm United States Collaboration with Nazis
May 1, 2001
Bush Faces Challenges on the Korean Peninsula
Mar 1, 2001
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