{"id":49284,"date":"2018-08-27T15:35:54","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T19:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?p=49284"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:36:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:36:42","slug":"carleton-experts-available-announcement-of-united-states-mexico-trade-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2018\/carleton-experts-available-announcement-of-united-states-mexico-trade-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton Experts Available: Announcement of United States \u2013 Mexico Trade Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Carleton Experts Available: Announcement of United States \u2013 Mexico Trade Agreement\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

Following President Trump\u2019s announcement of a United States \u2013 Mexico trade agreement, Carleton experts are available to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\nLaura Macdonald<\/strong>
\nProfessor, Department of Political Science and Institute of Political Economy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Phone<\/strong>: 613-520-2600, ext. 2771
\nEmail<\/strong>:  laura.macdonald@carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Macdonald has been researching and writing about Latin America and global political economy since 1983. She has expertise in the areas of Latin American politics, Mexican politics, North American politics and Canadian foreign policy, as well as democracy and civil society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She has published numerous articles in journals and edited collections on such issues as the role of non-governmental organizations in development, global civil society, citizenship struggles in Latin America, Canadian development assistance and the political impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Macdonald is a regular media commentator on issues related to Latin American and North American political economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\nIan Lee
\n<\/strong>Associate Professor, Sprott School of Business<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email<\/strong>: Ian.Lee@carleton.ca<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lee has appeared multiple times before the House of Commons Finance and Senate Banking committees. He has been in every Government of Canada budget lockup since 2008. He attended pre-budget consultations with the Minister of Finance in 2009 and 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was employed in the financial services sector as a loan manager in consumer, mortgage and commercial credit for an American multinational and subsequently for the Bank of Montreal in the 1970s and early 1980s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\nJohn Higginbotham
\n<\/strong>Senior Distinguished Fellow, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Phone<\/strong>: 613-325-8806
\nEmail<\/strong>: john.higginbotham@carleton.ca<\/a> or johnhigginbotham@rogers.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Higginbotham served in senior Canadian diplomatic posts in Washington, D.C., Hong Kong and Beijing, and as an assistant deputy minister in Transport Canada, Global Affairs Canada and the Canada School of Public Service (CSPS). Higginbotham was part of the team that negotiated the original Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Elliot Tepper
\n<\/strong>Distinguished Senior Fellow, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, and Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Security and Defence Studies<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Phone<\/strong>: 613-225-8076 or 613-852-4262
\nEmail<\/strong>:  e_tepper@carleton.ca
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\nTepper has worked with national and international organizations on a broad range of topics and has been engaged with media throughout his career. He can offer commentary on international relations, nuclear issues, the United Nations and terrorism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fen Hampson
\n<\/strong>Chancellor\u2019s Professor and Professor of International Affairs, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs<\/strong>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Phone<\/strong>: 613-520-2600, ext. 6660
\nEmail<\/strong>: Fen.Hampson@carleton.ca<\/a><\/strong>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/strong>Hampson is a distinguished fellow and director of the Global Security and Politics program at the Centre for International Governance Innovation. He is an international affairs expert and has expertise in Canadian foreign policy and global governance, international organization, conflict resolution and analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hamspson is the author of Master of Persuasion: Brian Mulroney\u2019s Global Legacy<\/em>, which discusses the origins of NAFTA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Following President Trump\u2019s announcement of a United States \u2013 Mexico trade agreement, Carleton experts are available to comment. Laura Macdonald Professor, Department of Political Science and Institute of Political Economy Phone: 613-520-2600, ext. 2771 Email:  laura.macdonald@carleton.ca Macdonald has been researching and writing about Latin America and global political economy since 1983. She has expertise in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":49282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[84,1558,96],"class_list":["post-49284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-experts-available","tag-npsia","tag-political-science","tag-sprott-school-of-business"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49284"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49291,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49284\/revisions\/49291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}