Marc L. Busch

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Professional Affiliation

Karl F. Landegger Professor of International Business Diplomacy at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University

Expert Bio

Marc L. Busch is the Karl F. Landegger Professor of International Business Diplomacy at
the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He is an expert on
international trade policy and law.

He writes a bi-weekly piece in The Hill on trade.

He previously served for two terms as a “cleared advisor” on technical trade barriers to the U.S.
Department of Commerce and the United States Trade Representative.

He has addressed a wide range of governments and international institutions, including the
Advisory Centre on WTO Law, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency,
and the United Nations. He has testified before the US Congress on Airbus-Boeing litigation, the Canadian Senate on softwood lumber litigation, and a NAFTA 2022 panel on best practices in dispute settlement.

He has consulted to APCO Worldwide, Bell Canada, Booz Allen Hamilton, Boston Consulting
Group, Canada Goose, DCI Group, Frontier Strategy Group, Goruck, Health Canada, Janssen
Pharmaceuticals, McKinsey & Company, Monitor Group, Nomacorc, PhRMA, Philip Morris
International, Sidley Austin, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, the
United Nations, the World Bank, and the Trade Law Division of the Department of International
Trade Canada.

He previously taught at Queen’s University and Harvard. In 2010, Forbes Magazine named his
course, “Business, Government and the Global Economy,” one of the Top 10 Most Innovative
MBA courses in the United States.

Expertise

  • International Trade Policy & Law
  • Trade dispute settlement
  • Technical barriers to trade
  • Political economy of protectionism