Barbara Kotschwar, research associate at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, has been an adjunct professor of Latin American Studies and Economics at Georgetown University since 1998. She was the chief of the Foreign Trade Information System (2000–2007) and senior trade specialist (1996–2007) at the Organization of American States (OAS). She was a research assistant at the Institute (1995–96) and at the North American Studies Project at Johns Hopkins University Foreign Policy Institute (1994–95). She was coeditor of Trade Rules in the Making: Multilateral and Regional Trade Arrangements (Brookings Institution Press/Organization of American States, 1999) and The Andean Community and the United States: Trade and Investment Relations in the 1990s (Organization of American States, 1998). Barbara Kotschwar holds a PhD and an MA (both in Latin American studies and international economics) from the Johns Hopkins School of International Studies (SAIS) and Bachelors degrees in economics and political science from McGill University in Montreal, Canada.