The WAGE Speakers Bureau connects WAGE faculty and distinguished visitors with the wider community in Wisconsin and beyond. WAGE faculty regularly share their expertise with local, national, and international audiences such as Rotary Clubs, regional Federal Reserve Banks, the Congressional Budget Office and the European Commission. They also provide expert opinion to a variety of media outlets. In addition to our many public events on campus, the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy also seeks to facilitate interactions between WI groups and our many visiting scholars and policymakers.
2008
"EU Policy Coordination Beyond 2010: Towards an Inclusive Governance Architecture." Workshop on European Globalisation Strategy Post-2010, Vienna, Austria (Jonathan Zeitlin, 10/08).
"Henry Kissinger and the Contemporary Middle East Crisis." Downtown Madison Kiwanis Club (Jeremi Suri, 8/08).
"Regional Manufacturing Competitiveness in the Age of Globalization." Wisconsin Manufacturing Extension Partnership Board (Jonathan Zeitlin and Gary Herrigel (Univ. of Chicago), 6/08).
"A Decade of Innovation in EU Social Governance: The European Employment Strategy, the Open Method of Coordination, and the Lisbon Strategy." European Studies Consortium (Jonathan Zeitlin, 3/08).
"Wisconsin's Likely Performance in an Economic Downturn." Business Solutions Seminar and Technology Expo (Don Nichols, 2/08).
"Prospects for the US Economy: Recession, Decoupling, and Policy." Madison Downtown Rotary (Don Nichols, 2/08).
"Learning from Difference: the New Architecture of Experimentalist Governance in the EU." CONNEX (Jonathan Zeitlin, 1/08).
"The Challenge and Concerns of Global Warming." Madison Downtown Rotary (Jon Foley, 1/08).
"Henry Kissinger and the Seeds of the Contemporary Middle East Crisis." Madison Committee on Foreign Relations (Jeremi Suri, 1/08).
2007
"Is the Open Method of Coordination an Alternative to the Community Method?" CONNEX (Jonathan Zeitlin, 11/07).
"Learning from Difference: The New Architecture of Experimentalist Governance in the EU." Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University (Jonathan Zeitlin, 11/07).
"Local Players in Global Games: Retrospect and Prospect." Sloan School of Management, MIT (Jonathan Zeitlin, 11/07).
"A Decade of Innovation in EU Governance: The European Employment STrategy, the Open Method of Coordination, and the Lisbon Strategy." Conference of the Portuguese Presidency of the EU (Jonathan Zeitlin, 10/07).
"Meeting Kissinger." Milwaukee Public Radio's "Lake Effect" with Jane Hampden (Jeremi Suri, 10/07).
"Henry Kissinger and the American Century." Wisconsin Veterans Museum (Jeremi Suri, 10/07; similar talks at 92.1 WXXM's Sunday Journal with Stu Levitan, Madison Rotary Club and Wisconsin Public Radio's "University of the Air").
"Business, Employment, and Economic Conditions in Wisconsin and the Midwest." Special Executive Briefing for the UW-Madison School of Business Executive Education program (Donald Nichols, 9/07).
"Campus Anti-War Protests Then and Now." WisconsinEye Public Affairs Network (Jeremi Suri, 9/07).
"India and Global Politics." Wisconsin Public Radio's "University of the Air" (Aseema Sinha, 9/07).
"Perspectives on September 11." TEMPO Madison (Vicki Bier, 9/07).
"China’s Current Account and Exchange Rate."” National Bureau of Economic Research Conference on China’s Growing Role in World Trade (Menzie Chinn, 8/07).
"Learning from Difference: The New Architecture of Experimentalist Governance in the EU." Belgian Federal Public Service of Social Security, Brussels (Jonathan Zeitlin, 8.07).
"Exchange Rate Models are Not as Bad as You Think." De Nederlandsche Bank (Charles Engel, 7/07; similar talks at the National Bureau of Economic Research "Macroeconomics Annual" conference, European Central Bank, Ente Einaudi research institute of the Bank of Italy, Bank of Canada / European Central Bank "Topics in Exchange Rate Modelling" conference).
"The Korean War and its Contemporary Legacies." Wisconsin Public Radio's "University of the Air" (Jeremi Suri, 6/07).
"The Past and Future of American Foreign Policy." WGN Radio Chicago's "Extension 720 with Milt Rosenberg" (Jeremi Suri, 6/07).
"East Asia and Global Imbalances: Saving, Investment, and Financial Development." International Monetary Fund (Menzie Chinn, 6/07; similar talk at National Bureau of Economic Research-East Asia Seminar on Economics).
"Expectations, Monetary Policy, and the Misalignment of Traded Goods Prices." National Bureau of Economic Research International Seminar on Macroeconomics (Charles Engel, 6/07).
"Interpreting the Empirical Evidence for the Global Saving Glut." International Monetary Fund (Menzie Chinn, 6/07).
"An International Dialogue on Ecological Policy." WISC-TV's "For the Record" (Jonathan Zeitlin, 6/07).
"A Decade of Innovation in EU Governance: The European Employment Strategy, the Open Method of Coordination, and the Lisbon Strategy." Expert Seminar on "Policy Coordination on Employment and Social Affairs in the European Union" organized by the Portuguese Presidency of the European Union (Jonathan Zeitlin, 5/07).
"Strengthening the Social Dimension of the Lisbon Strategy." European Union Social Protection Committee (Jonathan Zeitlin, 5/07).
"Supply Capacity, Vertical Specialization and Tariff Rates: The Implications for Aggregate U.S. Trade Flow Equations." European Central Bank (Menzie Chinn, 5/07).
"Monetary Policy Advisory Discussion." Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (Charles Engel, 4/07).
"New Developments in Exchange Rate Economics." IMF Institute (Charles Engel, 2/07).
"Despite Job Growth, Fears About Economy Linger." Minnesota Public Radio’s “Midmorning.” (Menzie Chinn, 1/07).
2006
"The Role of Law in Economic Development in East Asia: Will China Follow the Path of its East Asian Neighbours Taiwan, Korea or Japan?" World University Network (John Ohnesorge, 12/06).
"Europe and Global Imbalances." IMF Seventh Jacques Polak Annual Research Conference (Menzie Chinn, 11/06).
"Approaches to Assessing Currency Misalignment." Office of International Affairs,
U.S. Treasury Department (Menzie Chinn, 10/06).
"Wisconsin in the Changing Global Economy: Its Impact on Our Communities." League of Wisconsin Municipalities' 2006 Annual Conference and Engineering & Public Works Institute. (Don Nichols, 10/06).
"Current Account Balances, Financial Development and Institutions: Assaying the World Savings Glut." ”Society of Government Economists Biennial Conference: Public Policy and US Competitiveness: Labor, Capital and Trade (Menzie Chinn, 10/06).
"Developmental Entrepreneurship Overseas and in Wisconsin." MIT Enterprise Forum / MIT Club of Wisconsin (Anne Miner, John Hoffmire, and and Peter Munoz, 9/06).
"Safety and Security of Nuclear Power Plants." Special Committee on Nuclear Power (Vicki Bier, 9/06).
"Societal Responsibilities Related to Nuclear Power." Special Committee on Nuclear Power (Jeremi Suri, 9/06).
"Pandemic Planning." Wisconsin Public Radio (Vicki Bier, 9/06).
"The Economy Shifts Gears." The Economic Outlook Conference of the UW-Madison School of Business (Donald Nichols, 9/06).
"News from a Warming Planet." Special Committee on Nuclear Power (Jonathan Foley, 9/06).
"Perspectives on a Post-9/11 World." Memorial Union (Jeremi Suri, Jon Pevehouse, Scott Mobley, and Vicki Bier, 9/06).
"Conventional and Unconventional Approaches to Exchange Rate Modeling and Assessment." Federal Reserve Board (Menzie Chinn, 08/06).
"Portfolio Choice in a Monetary Open-Economy DSGE Model." Hong Kong Monetary Authority (Charles Engel, 7/06).
"Invisible in Plain Sight: The Politics of Pscyhological Torture." Downtown Madison Rotary (Alfred McCoy, 7/06).
"Current Account Balances, Financial Development and Institutions: Assaying the World ‘Savings Glut’”." The Twelfth
Dubrovnik Economic Conference of the Croatian National Bank (Menzie Chinn, 06/06).
"The US Current Account Deficit and the Expected Share of World Output." Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (Charles Engel, 6/06).
"The North Korean Threat." Wisconsin Public Radio (Jeremi Suri, 6/06).
"Technology Transfer Offices: The Case of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and Embryonic Stem Cell Technology." Technology Transfer Society Annual Conference (Sanjay Jain, 6/06).
"Vietnam and Iraq: Historical Lessons for Today" (9/06).
"The Living Legacy of the Vietnam War" (9/06).
Alex Roland
Professor of History, Duke University
"The Long War Dead: The Politics and Reality of Casualties in Iraq" (4/06).
"U.S.-China Trade Relations and the WTO" (12/05).
Walter Cutler
President, Meridian International Center and Former Ambassador to Saudi Arabia
"Saudi Arabia, U.S. Foreign Policy, and Oil" (11/05).
"Water Pollution and Human Health" (10/05).
"Conflicting U.S. and European Approaches to the New World Order: Economic Relations and Security" (4/03)
