Dr. Geoffrey Garrett is President of the Pacific Council on International Policy and Professor of International Relations, Business Administration, Communication and Law at the University of Southern California. Garrett is an expert on the causes and consequences of globalization, the interactions between the security and economics post 9/11, U.S. foreign policy, European integration and partisan politics in the OECD. He was previously founding Dean of the International Institute and Vice Provost of International Studies at UCLA and Director of the Program in Ethics, Politics and Economics at Yale University
Garrett’s research has been published in the world’s leading political science and international relations journals and has been cited over 1700 times by other scholars. Garrett’s essays have appeared in Foreign Affairs and newspapers such as the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Times, San Jose Mercury News and the San Diego Union Tribune in the United States and internationally in Le Monde, South China Morning Post and Mexico’s El Financiero.
Garrett is author of Partisan Politics in the Global Economy and coeditor of The Global Diffusion of Markets and Democracy. He is currently working on two books. “What China Means for America” explores the leading edge of globalization for contemporary America, the economic rise of China, through the lens of major US corporations. “Globalization’s Missing Middle” demonstrates that middle class countries, like the American middle class, have been globalization’s principal losers because they cannot compete on either low cost or high skill.
Garrett has also held academic appointments at Oxford, Pennsylvania and Stanford universities. He has a PhD from Duke University and a BA (Hons) from the Australian National University.
