Robert Z. Lawrence, nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics since 2001, is the Albert L. Williams Professor of Trade and Investment at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Global Fellow at the MasterCard Center for Inclusive Growth. He was appointed by President Clinton to serve as a member of his Council of Economic Advisers in 1999. He held the New Century Chair as a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and founded and edited the Brookings Trade Forum. Lawrence has been a senior fellow in the Economic Studies Program at Brookings (1983-91) and a professorial lecturer at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and Yale University.