Clyde Prestowitz

Clyde Prestowitz, Founder and President of the Economic Strategy Institute, is author of the international foreign policy bestseller “Rogue Nation: American Unilateralism and the Failure of Good Intentions.” An international affairs expert, Clyde Prestowitz was a senior businessman in the US, Europe, Asia and Latin America before he served as a leading trade negotiator and Counselor to the Secretary of Commerce in the Reagan administration. A regular contributor to the Washington Post, New York Times and other leading publications, he also wrote the best-selling Trading Places, on US-Japan trade relations. A Swarthmore graduate, Clyde Prestowitz holds a MBA from the Wharton School and also studied at the Hawaii’s East-West Center and Tokyo’s Keio University. He is fluent in Japanese, Dutch, German, and French.