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Claude E. Barfield is a Resident Scholar and Director of Trade and Science and Technology Studies at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. His areas of research and expertise include international trade, science and technology policy, and U.S. competitiveness. His most recent publications include, Free Trade, Sovereignty, Democracy: The Future of the World Trade Organization, and The New World of Services: Implications for the United States (co-author Cordula Thum). In 1999, he was the co-author (with Mark Groombridge) of Tiger By the Tail: China and the WTO. In addition, he has recently directed the publication of three major multiauthored studies by the institute: Science for the 21st Century: The Bush Report Revisited (1997); The Future of Biomedical Research (1997); and The United States and East Asia: Trade and Investment for the Next Decade (1997).

In addition, from 1988 to 1992, he directed the AEI project entitled “The United States and Europe in the 1990s” which produced four volumes: Political and Social Change: The U.S. Faces a United Europe; Capital Markets and Trade: the U.S. Faces a United Europe; Industry, Services and Agriculture in the 1990s: the U.S. Faces a United Europe; and Defense and Security: the U.S. Faces a United Europe.

Dr. Barfield has testified often before congressional committees and has appeared on the McNeil-Lehrer News Hour, as well as on NBC, CBS, CNN, and the Nightly Business Report.

Prior to coming to AEI, Dr. Barfield taught at Yale University and the University of Munich, served in the Ford Administration, and was the co-staff director of President Carter’s Commission for a National Agenda for the 80s. He received a BA from Johns Hopkins University and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University.