Joshua Meltzer

Dr. JOSHUA P. MELTZER is a senior fellow in the Global Economy and Development program at the Brookings Institution, where he works on international trade law and policy issues with a focus on the World Trade Organization and large free trade agreements such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement. He has testified on trade issues before the US Congress, the US International Trade Commission, and the European Parliament. He teaches digital trade law at Melbourne University Law School and has taught international trade law as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law School and Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies. He is a member of CUTS International Advisory Board and Australia's National Data Advisory Council, and a reviewer for the Journal of Politics and Law, World Trade Review, and International Studies Review. Prior to joining Brookings, he was a diplomat at the Australian Embassy in Washington D.C. where he was responsible for trade, climate, and energy issues and prior to that he was a trade negotiator in Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. He holds an S.J.D. and LL.M. from the University of Michigan Law School in Ann Arbor and law and commerce degrees from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.