Susan Ariel Aaronson

Susan Ariel Aaronson
Education	Johns Hopkins University
Occupations	Author academic
Years active	2001–present
Organization(s)	Elliott School of International Affairs and Digital Trade and Data Governance Hub, The George Washington University
Website	elliott.gwu.edu/susan-aaronson

Susan Ariel Aaronson is an American author, public speaker and an academic professor whose works are centered on the relationship between economic change and human rights and more recently focuses on data. ^{[1] [2]} She is a research professor at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University, ^[3] where she set up the Digital Trade and Data Governance Hub, of which she is director. ^[4]

Aaronson is senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation ^[5] and was a fellow of the World Trade Institute during 2008 to 2012. ^[3]

Education

Aaronson received her B.A. in history from Binghamton University. She graduated from Columbia University with an M.I.A. and M.A. in Political Science and International Affairs and from Johns Hopkins University in 1993 with an M.A. and PhD in Economic and Business History. ^[6]

Writing

Books

• For the People, But Not by the People: A History of the International Trade Organization (ITO) (1993)
• Taking trade to the streets (University of Michigan Press, 2001)
• The Lost History of Public Efforts to Shape Globalization (2002)
• Trade Imbalance: The Struggle to Weigh Human Rights Concerns in Trade Policymaking. (2007)
• Trade and the American Dream: A Social History of Postwar Trade Policy (2015)

Other

• "Why Trade Agreements are not Setting Information Free: The Lost History and Reinvigorated Debate over Cross-Border Data Flows, Human Rights and National Security", World Trade Review, 2015, 14(4):671-700
• "Protectionism", The International Economy, Fall 2016, page 58
• Data is disruptive: How data sovereignty is challenging data governance (2021), Hinrich Foundation
• "Data Is Different, So Policymakers Should Pay Close Attention to Its Governance", in Big Data and Global Trade Law, ed. M Burri (Cambridge University Press, 2021), pp340-360.

References

1. "Susan Ariel Aaronson" (PDF). Institute de Ameriques. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016. Retrieved December 6, 2015.
2. Behsudi, Adam (November 19, 2015). "Reichert: TPP review tops W&M panel to-do list". Politico. Archived from the original on November 24, 2015. Retrieved December 6, 2015.
3. "Susan Ariel Aaronson". Elliott School of International Affairs. Archived from the original on May 23, 2018. Retrieved December 6, 2015.
4. "Our Team Susan Ariel Aaronson" Archived September 30, 2022, at the Wayback Machine Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics, School of Media and Public Affairs, The George Washington University. Retrieved October 5, 2022.
5. "Susan Ariel Aaronson". Centre for International Governance Innovation . Archived from the original on February 23, 2019. Retrieved February 22, 2019.
6. "C.V." (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on September 28, 2021. Retrieved August 8, 2021.