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Todd Nathaniel Tucker Todd N. Tucker, Ph.D www.toddntucker.com @toddntucker Bio Todd N. Tucker is a political scientist and Director of Governance Studies at the Roosevelt Institute and Roosevelt Forward, where he helps lead research on global governance, democracy, and the administrative state as part of the Climate and Economic Transformation team. A recognized expert on trade and political economy, Dr. Tucker has testified before legislatures and expert committees around the world. His writing has been featured in Politico, Time Magazine, Democracy Journal, the Financial Times, and The Washington Post. He is author of Judge Knot: Politics and Development in International Investment Law (Anthem Press 2018), along with other academic research published by Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and others. Prior to his doctoral work, he led research on international issues for Public Citizen and worked as an analyst at other think tanks. He was the principal investigator on several major grants, including from the Ford Foundation, Open Society Foundations, and Sloan Foundation, which supported his research on The Rise and Fall of Fast Track Trade Authority, a co- authored book exploring over 200 years of history of U.S. inter-branch relations on trade. Additionally, he has authored over 70 major reports, including Fixing the Senate: Equitable and Full Representation for the 21st Century and Industrial Policy and Planning: What It Is and How to Do It Better for Roosevelt. A native of Louisville, Kentucky, Dr. Tucker received his B.A. from the George Washington University and his Ph.D. and M.Phil. from the University of Cambridge, where he was a Gates Scholar. He has taught at Johns Hopkins University and the University of New Hampshire. He lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife Heather. Education Ph.D, Development Studies, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, 2016; Dissertation Title: "Institutions and Development Ideologies in Investment Treaty Arbitration"; Supervisor/Chair: Ha-Joon Chang; Committee members: Walter Mattli (Oxford), Michael Waibel (Cambridge). M. Phil, Development Studies, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, 2002. B.A., International Affairs, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, 2001. Research and teaching positions Director of Governance Studies, Roosevelt Institute, 2020-. Fellow and political scientist, Roosevelt Institute, 2016-2019. Lecturer for "Thinking Economically," an advanced undergraduate course at Johns Hopkins University, 2017-. Lecturer for “Advanced Topics in Trade,” graduate class at University of New Hampshire, 2017. Research director, Public Citizen, 2004-2012. Policy analyst, Center for Economic and Policy Research, 2002-2004. Book (peer reviewed) Todd Tucker, Judge Knot: Politics and Development in International Investment Law (London: Anthem Press, 2018). Reports (peer reviewed) Todd N. Tucker and Rajesh D. Nayak, “OIRA 2.0: How Regulatory Review Can Help Respond to Existential Threats” (New York: Roosevelt Institute, April 2020). Todd N. Tucker, “Industrial Policy and Planning: What It Is and How to Do It Better” (New York: Roosevelt Institute, July 30, 2019), https://rooseveltinstitute.org/industrial-policy-and- planning/. Todd N. Tucker, “Fixing the Senate: Equitable and Full Representation for the 21st Century” (New York: Roosevelt Institute, March 18, 2019). Todd N. Tucker, “Off-Balance: Five Strategies for a Judiciary That Supports Democracy” (New York: Roosevelt Institute, November 13, 2018), http://rooseveltinstitute.org/off-balance-five- strategies-judiciary-supports-democracy/. Todd N. Tucker, “Seven Strategies to Rebuild Worker Power for the 21st Century Global Economy: A Comparative and Historical Framework for Policy Action” (New York: Roosevelt Institute, September 18, 2018), http://rooseveltinstitute.org/seven-strategies-rebuild-worker- power/. Todd N. Tucker, “The Sustainable Equitable Trade Doctrine” (New York: Roosevelt Institute, March 16, 2017), http://rooseveltinstitute.org/trade-set-doctrine/. Articles (peer reviewed) Paul Adler and Todd N. Tucker, “Operation Monkeywrench: Towards A Populist Policy Process?,” Populism 2, no. 2 (2019): 137–56. Todd N. Tucker, “Grounded Theory Generation: A Tool for Transparent Concept Development,” International Studies Perspectives 17, no. 4 (November 2016). Page 2 of 12 Todd N. Tucker, “Inside the Black Box: Collegial Patterns on Investment Tribunals,” Journal of International Dispute Settlement 7, no. 1 (March 1, 2016): 183–204, https://doi.org/10.1093/jnlids/idv035. Book chapters (peer reviewed) Todd N. Tucker, “North American Investment Law and Policy: 2019,” in Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy 2019, ed. Lisa E. Sachs, Lise J. Johnson, and Jesse Coleman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), 391–402. Todd N. Tucker and Timothy Meyer, “Reshaping Global Trade and Investment Law for a Green New Deal,” in Handbook on a Green New Deal, ed. Kyla S. Tienhaara and Joanna Robinson (Abingdon-on-Thames: Routledge, 2021). Todd N. Tucker, “Navigating the Tax-Trade-Investment Regime Complex: Implications for Wealth Taxes and Structural Economic Transformation,” in Domestic Resource Mobilization and the Trade and Investment Regime: The Need for Policy Coherence, ed. Rachel D. Thrasher and Kevin P. Gallagher (Boston: Boston University Global Development Policy Center, 2020), 45–49. Kyla S. Tienhaara and Todd N. Tucker, “Regulatory Expropriation Post-Methanex: Policy Space Reclaimed?,” in Alternative Visions In The International Law On Foreign Investment: Essays In Honour Of Muthucumaraswamy Sornarajah, ed. Chin Leng Lim (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016). Todd N. Tucker, “The Concept of the State in Investor-State Arbitration: A Social Science Perspective,” in The Role of the State in Investor-State Arbitration, ed. Shaheeza Lalani and Rodrigo Polanco (Boston: Brill | Nijhoff, 2014), 131–61. Todd N. Tucker, “The WTO Ruling on the United States’ Flavoured Cigarettes Ban,” in The Global Tobacco Epidemic and the Law, ed. Tania S. Voon and Andrew D. Mitchell (London: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2014), 87–104. (Previously published as " 'One of These Things Is Not Like the Other': Likeness and Detrimental Impacts in US-Clove Cigarettes", Legal Issues in Tobacco Control, TDM 5 (2012).) Todd N. Tucker, “The Looming GATS Conflict with Capital Controls,” in Capital Account Regulations and the Trading System: A Compatibility Review, ed. Kevin P. Gallagher and Leonardo Stanley, Pardee Center Task Force (Boston: Boston University, 2013), 25–34. Lori Wallach and Todd N. Tucker, “US Politics and the TPPA,” in No Ordinary Deal: Unmasking the Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement, ed. Jane Kelsey, 21: Into a New Century (Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 2010), 52–69. Works in process Martin Hearson and Todd N. Tucker, “‘An Unprecedented Surrender of Fiscal Sovereignty’: Arbitration and Sovereignty in the Double Taxation Regime,” Working Paper (New York: Page 3 of 12 Roosevelt Institute, December 10, 2019), https://rooseveltinstitute.org/an-unacceptable- surrender-of-fiscal-sovereignty-arbitration-sovereignty-in-the-double-taxation-regime/. Other published work (select) Timothy Meyer and Todd N. Tucker, “Trump’s Trade Strategy Points the Way to a U.S. Carbon Tariff,” Lawfare, August 24, 2020, https://www.lawfareblog.com/trumps-trade-strategy-points-way-us-carbon-tariff. Todd N. Tucker, “What Donald Trump Could Learn from Herbert Hoover,” POLITICO, April 26, 2020, https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/04/26/what-donald-trump-could-learn- from-herbert-hoover-207034. Todd N. Tucker, “10 Ways Trump Could Use His Power for Good, Not Evil,” The Nation, April 20, 2020, https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-covid-executive/. Joseph E. Stiglitz, Todd N. Tucker, and Gabriel Zucman, “The Starving State,” Foreign Affairs 99, no. 1 (December 10, 2019): 30–37. Todd N. Tucker, “RIP, World Trade Organization?,” The Nation, December 9, 2019, https://www.thenation.com/article/wto-trade-tariff-trump/. Lenore Palladino and Todd N. Tucker, “The U.K. May Overhaul Shareholder Rules. Companies Are Not Happy.,” Washington Post, September 11, 2019, https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fpolitics%2F2019%2F09%2F11%2Fuk-may- overhaul-shareholder-rules-companies-are-not-happy%2F. Todd N. Tucker, “Elizabeth Warren’s Trade Plan Empowers Workers, Not Corporations,” The Nation, July 31, 2019, https://www.thenation.com/article/elizabeth-warren-trade-plan/. Jennifer M. Harris and Todd N. Tucker, “The One Thing Trump Gets Right About Tariffs,” POLITICO Magazine, June 6, 2019, https://politi.co/2Iu1DCe. Todd N. Tucker, “How a Sex Offender’s Case Before the Supreme Court Could Bring Down the Administrative State,” POLITICO Magazine, June 2, 2019, https://politi.co/2XngNiT. Todd N. Tucker, “The WTO Just Blew up Trump’s Argument for Steel Tariffs,” Washington Post, April 5, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/04/05/wto-just-blew-up- trumps-argument-steel-tariffs/. Todd N. Tucker, “USMCA, NAFTA, and Why Labor Is a Foreign Policy Issue,” Vox, October 11, 2018, https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2018/10/11/17964552/nafta-usmca-unions-labor- trump-trade-deals. Todd N. Tucker and Timothy Meyer, “Why Canada’s Leaders Should Wait out Trump’s NAFTA Deal,” Politico, September 25, 2018, https://politi.co/2DuNup9. Page 4 of 12 Todd N. Tucker, “New Challenge to Trump’s National Security Tariffs and Executive Power,” Lawfare, July 5, 2018, https://www.lawfareblog.com/new-challenge-trumps-national-security- tariffs-and-executive-power.
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