Kent Hughes
Director , Program on America and the Global Economy
Director, Wilson Center on the Hill

Phone: 202/691-4136
Email: kent.hughes@wilsoncenter.org

Affiliation Director, Program on Science, Technology, America, and the Global Economy Expertise International trade, finance, and the global economy; U.S. competitiveness and science and technology policy Experience Associate deputy secretary of commerce; president, Council on Competitiveness; chief economist to Senate Majority Leader, Robert C. Byrd
Major Publications | Education | Honors

Major Publications

• "Innovation in the United States: The Interplay of History, Institutions, and American Culture," AICGS Policy Report 26 (American Institute of Contemporary German Studies, 2006)
  
• "Are the Wheels Coming Off the American Auto Industry?" The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 14, 2006
  
• Building the Next American Century: The Past and Future of Economic Competitiveness, (Woodrow Wilson Center Press and The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005)
  
• "R&D Can Keep America Competitive Amid New Challenges," Chronicle of Higher Education, November 30, 2001
  
• "The Currency Conundrum," editor (Woodrow Wilson Center, 2001)
  
• Trade, Taxes, and Transnationals: International Economic Decision Making in Congress (Westview Press, 1979)
  
• "Building the American Dream: Jobs, Innovation, and Growth in America's Next Century," The 1996 Competitiveness Report of the U.S. Department of Commerce
  

Education
Ph.D., Economics, Washington University in St. Louis; LL.B., Harvard Law School; B.A., Political and Economic Institutions, Yale University

Honors
Woodrow Wilson Center Public Policy Scholar, International Legal Center Fellow, and Latin American Teaching Fellow

Program on America and the Global Economy
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