SPEAKERS

Professor Cooper holds an  A.B. from Oberlin College, 1956; M.Sc (Econ) from the London School of Economics and Political Science, 1958; and a Ph.D., from Harvard University, 1962.  His honors include Phi Beta Kappa, 1955; Marshall Scholarship (U.K.), 1956-58; Brookings Fellow, 1960-61; Ford Foundation Faculty Fellowship, 1970-71; Fellow, Center for the Study of Advanced Behavioral Sciences, 1975-76; Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1974; LL.D., Oberlin College, 1978; University of Paris II, 2000; Foreign Affairs Award, U.S. State Department, 1981; National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal, 1996.

He has served as the Vice chairman, Global Development Network; as the Director and Chairman, advisory committee for the Institute for International Economics; and Director of the Center for Naval Analyses.  Professor Cooper has been a member of the Trilateral Commission, Council on Foreign Relations; Aspen Strategy Group; Executive Panel, Chief of Naval Operations; and the Brookings Panel on Economic Activity.  He has also been a book reviewer for Foreign Affairs.  He has been associated with numerous other organizations including Oberlin College, Warburg-Pincus Funds, Overseas Development Council, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, German Marshall Fund, World Peace Foundation, Panama Canal Company, Centre for European Policy Studies, and Council on Foreign Relations.  He was formerly the director, Circuit City Stores, Phoenix Companies and a member of  National Research Council Panels on Technology Transfer, on Public Policy toward Global Warming, on Foreign Trade Statistics, and on Government Assistance to Civilian Technology.  He has been a consultant to Council of Economic Advisers, National Security Council, U.S. State Department; U.S. Treasury Dept.; the United Nations; and the World Bank.

Professor Cooper has written or edited over 20 books, journal articles and white papers.  Some of his most recent work includes “Should Capital Controls Be Banished?, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1999; “Growth and Inequality: the Role of Foreign Trade and Investment.” World Bank Conference on Development Economics, 2001/2002; “International Approaches to Global Climate Change,” World Bank Research Observer, 2000; “Toward a Common Currency?” International Finance, 2000; “A Chapter 11 for Countries?” Foreign Affairs, 2002; and  “A Half Century of Development,” World Bank Conference on Development, 2005.

Many of Professor Cooper's papers are available on the web including How Integrated Are China's and India's Labor into the World Economy? and Understanding Global Imbalances.