Barbara Kotschwar, research fellow, has been associated with the Peterson Institute for International Economics since 2007. Before joining the Institute, she was chief of the Foreign Trade Information System at the Organization of American States, where she also provided technical and analytical ...
Barbara Kotschwar, research fellow, has been associated with the Peterson Institute for International Economics since 2007. Before joining the Institute, she was chief of the Foreign Trade Information System at the Organization of American States, where she also provided technical and analytical support to the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) process in the area of standards and technical barriers to trade in her capacity as senior trade specialist. She has advised Latin American and Caribbean governments on trade-related issues and has worked with multilateral and regional development banks on a variety of trade and development projects.