Event Date: September 30, 2026 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: DMS 12102, 55 Laurier Ave E, Ottawa

Registration: Eventbrite

Presented by the Hyman Soloway Chair on Business and Trade Law, the CN-Paul M. Tellier Chair on Business and Public Policy and CIPS 

Over the past year, Canadians have learned more about the word “tariff” than they would have ever imagined. After decades of ever deeper North American economic integration, Canada is embroiled in a tit-for-tat trade dispute. Chad Bown, co-author of How to Win a Trade War (with Soumaya Keynes), will explain what that trade dispute means for Canada and the United States and what may happen next. The conversation will be moderated by Mélanie Raymond, Chief Economist Global Affairs Canada.

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Speaker:

Chad P. Bown is the Reginald Jones Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and the host of the Trade Talks podcast. He served as chief economist at the Department of State in the Biden-Harris administration and as senior economist in the White House on President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers. He has also been on the research staff at the World Bank and the World Trade Organization, and he was on the faculty for twelve years at Brandeis University, where he was a tenured professor of economics. He received a BA in economics and international relations from Bucknell University and a PhD in economics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Moderator:

Mélanie Raymond is the Chief Economist and DG of International Economic Relations at Global Affairs Canada. Mélanie joined GAC in 2018 as Director of Investment and Development Analysis. In this role, she led current analysis and research on inward and outward foreign direct investment as well as on international development issues. Mélanie has over 20 years of experience spanning five departments in the federal government in a variety of roles and in a variety of files, including Privy Council Office and Finance Canada. Her current role allows her to draw on her research and policy experience to support Canada’s efforts internationally. She holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural and Natural Resources Economics from the University of California at Berkeley. Her spare time is devoted to gardening in the summer, skiing in the winter and cooking and baking all year round.