Douglas Irwin is the Robert E. Maxwell Professor of Arts and Sciences in the Department of Economics at Dartmouth College. He is author of Free Trade under Fire (third edition, Princeton University Press, 2009), The Genesis of the GATT (Cambridge University Press, 2008, co-authored with Petros Mavroidis and Alan Sykes), and Against the Tide: An Intellectual History of Free Trade (Princeton University Press, 1996), and many articles on the history of U.S. trade policy in professional journals. He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and the editor of the World Trade Review. He has also served on the staff of the President's Council of Economic Advisers and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.