FINGER, J(oseph) Michael 1939-

PERSONAL:

Born March 10, 1939, in D'Hanis, TX; son of James C. (a rancher) and Bernice (a homemaker and food preparation manager; maiden name, Carle) Finger; married Mary Lee Hill, July 27, 1968; children: Christopher Clemens, Sarah Adine, Stephen Reily. Ethnicity: "Alsatian." Education: University of Texas—Austin, B.A., 1960; University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill, Ph.D., 1965. Politics: Democrat. Religion: Roman Catholic.

ADDRESSES:

Office—American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1150 17th St. NW, Washington, DC 20036. E-mail—mfinger@aei.org.

CAREER:

Duke University, Durham, NC, assistant professor of economics, 1965-69; U.S. Tariff Commission, Washington, DC, scholar in residence, 1969-70; United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Geneva, Switzerland, research economist, 1970-74; U.S. Treasury Department, Washington, DC, deputy assistant secretary, 1974-80; World Bank, Washington, DC, lead economist, 1980-2001; American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Washington, DC, resident scholar, 2001—. Public speaker; consultant to national government bodies and international organizations, including United Kingdom Intellectual Property Commission, South Center, and Government of Ecuador.

WRITINGS:

(Editor, with Andrzej Olechowski) The Uruguay Round: A Handbook on the Multilateral Trade Negotiations, World Bank (Washington, DC), 1987.

(Editor and contributor) Antidumping: How It Works and Who Gets Hurt, University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor, MI), 1993.

(With Merlinda Ingco and Ulrich Reincke) The Uruguay Round: Statistics on Tariff Concessions Given and Received, World Bank (Washington, DC), 1996.

Institutions and Trade Policy, Edward Elgar Publishing (Northampton, MA), 2002.

The Doha Agenda and Development: A View from the Uruguay Round, Asian Development Bank (Manila, Philippines), 2002.

(Editor, with Philip Schuler, and contributor) Poor People's Knowledge: Promoting Intellectual Property in Developing Countries, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 2003.

Contributor to books, including The Challenge of European Integration: Internal and External Problems of Trade and Money, edited by Berhanu Abegaz, Patricia Dillon, and others, Westview Press (Boulder, CO), 1994; Developing Countries and the WTO: A Proactive Agenda, edited by Bernard Hoekman and Will Martin, Blackwell (Oxford, England), 2001; The WTO Millennium Round: Freer Trade in the Next Century, edited by Bernhard Speyer and Klaus Günter Deutsch, Routledge (London, England), 2001; Trade Negotiations and the Developing Countries: A Handbook, edited by Bernard Hoekman, World Bank (Washington, DC), 2002; and Issues and Options for the Multilateral, Regional, and Bilateral Trade Policies of the United States and Japan, edited by Robert M. Stern, University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor, MI), 2002. Contributor of articles and reviews to periodicals, including Journal of World Trade, World Bank Research Observer, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Economic Integration, World Economy, Cato Journal, and Journal of Commerce.

SIDELIGHTS:

J. Michael Finger told CA: "Throughout my career as a researcher and bureaucrat, I have managed to preserve the opportunity to do mostly things that I found interesting. I managed to convince the academics I was a bureaucrat, the bureaucrats I was an academic."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

International Journal of Legal Information, winter, 1989, Igor I. Kavass, review of The Uruguay Round: A Handbook on the Multilateral Trade Negotiations, p. 289.

Journal of Development Studies, April, 1989, G. H. Peters, review of The Uruguay Round, p. 451.

Journal of International Economics, August, 1994, Brian Hindley, review of Antidumping: How It Works and Who Gets Hurt, p. 128.

Southern Economic Journal, July, 1994, Dominick Salvatore, review of Antidumping, p. 247.