Howard Rosen

Howard Rosen is Executive Director of the Trade Adjustment Assistance Coalition, which he established to provided technical assistance and support to workers and communities experiencing pressures due to changes in international trade and investment. In 2001, he drafted the provisions in the Trade Act of 2002, which significantly reformed and expanded the US Trade Adjustment Assistance program. In 2003 Howard Rosen was the JP Morgan Fellow for International Economics at the American Academy in Berlin as well as the Japan Society Public Policy Fellow, studying unemployment insurance reform in the United States, Germany and Japan. Mr. Rosen is also working as an economic consultant on projects for the US Agency for International Development.

Between 1997 and 2001, he was Minority Staff Director of the Congressional Joint Economic Committee. Before joining the Committee, he served as the Competitiveness Policy Council’s only Executive Director. The Council was a federal advisory commission reporting to the President and Congress, with representatives from business, labor, government and the public. Prior to that he was Research Associate and later Assistant Director of the Institute for International Economics, and an economist in the Research Department of the Bank of Israel in Jerusalem and in the Bureau of International Labor Affairs in the US Department of Labor. He has consulted to the Senate Finance Committee, the Agency for International Development, the Inter-American Development Bank, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the Business Roundtable and Data Resources, Inc.

Mr. Rosen received his BA and MA in economics from the George Washington University, where he concentrated on international economics. His research focuses on issues relating to international trade and employment, macroeconomic policies, structural change and labor market adjustment. He has also studied and written on the Israeli and Palestinian economies and economic development in the Middle East.