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A warm welcome to Phil Levy

By Christian Brose I’m pleased to announce another great addition to our roster: Phil Levy. He is now at AEI, before that was at the State Department, before that was senior economist for trade for the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, and before that was on the economics faculty at Yale. Phil is a first ...

By Christian Brose

By Christian Brose

I’m pleased to announce another great addition to our roster: Phil Levy. He is now at AEI, before that was at the State Department, before that was senior economist for trade for the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, and before that was on the economics faculty at Yale. Phil is a first rate economist with broad experience in government, and he will have a lot to say on the intersection of U.S. foreign policy and the global economy, especially with news like this becoming all-too-common…

Christian Brose is a senior editor at Foreign Policy. He served as chief speechwriter and policy advisor for U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice from 2005 to 2008, and as speechwriter for former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell from 2004 to 2005.

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