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Albert Fishlow is Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and Columbia and Director of the Center for Brazilian Studies and Director of the Institute for Latin American Studies at Columbia University.
Albert was Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics at the Council of Foreign Relations until June 30, 1999. Previously Dr. Fishlow had been Professor of Economics and Dean of International and Area Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Albert has also been Visiting Professor at the Yale School of Management, and Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for International & Area Studies at Yale University.
Albert served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs from 1975 to 1976, and has been a member of a number of public groups relating to Latin America. Albert was the first president of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA). In 1999, he was awarded the National Order of the Southern Cross by the government of Brazil.
Albert´s published research has addressed issues in economic history, Brazilian and Latin American development strategy, as well as economic relations between industrialized and developing countries. His most recent book is a volume in Portuguese titled Desenvolvimento no Brasil e Na Latinoamerica (Development in Brazil and Latin America), published in 2004 by Editora Paz e Terra. Other recent publications include "Brazil: FTA or FTAA or WTO?" in Jeffrey Schott (ed.), Free Trade Agreements (Institute for International Economics, 2004); The United States and the Americas: a 21st century View (with James Jones, New York, NY, 1999); "Latin America in the XXI century," in Louis Emmerij, (ed.), and Economic and Social Development into the XXI century; (Inter-American Development Bank, 1997). | 