Joshua P. Meltzer

Dr. Meltzer is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He works on international economic relations with a focus on the intersection of digital technology and international trade and investment. He also leads the United States-Mexico-Canada (USMCA) initiative which focuses on how USMCA can strengthen international economic cooperation in North America. Meltzer has testified before the U.S. Congress, the U.S. International Trade Commission and the European Parliament. He was an expert witness in the Schrems II litigation in Europe on data flows and privacy and a consultant to the World Bank on trade and privacy matters, as well as the G20 and APEC on data governance issues. He is a member of the Australian government’s National Data Advisory Council, and a member of the OECD Expert Community on Data Free Flow with Trust.

Meltzer is also a senior fellow at Melbourne University law School where he teaches digital trade law and has taught digital trade law at the University of Toronto Law School as an adjunct professor and ran the E-commerce and Digital Trade course at the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office diplomatic academy. Before Brookings, Meltzer was a diplomat at the Australian Embassy in Washington D.C. and prior to that an international trade negotiator in Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Meltzer has appeared in print and news media, including the Economist, the New York Times, CNN, Bloomberg the Asahi Shimbun and China Daily. Meltzer holds an S.J.D. and LL.M. from the University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor and law and commerce degrees from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.

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