Welcome to Inu Manak

I wanted to welcome Inu Manak as a contributor to this blog. Inu was our research assistant at Cato's trade policy center, and she has been my co-author on several journal articles and op-eds. She is now a PhD student in poli sci at Georgetown (studying under Marc Busch), and also works with Joost Pauwelyn at TradeLab. In addition, she still spends a few hours a week doing various things at Cato. Apparently, she didn't think she was busy enough with all of that, and was willing to sign up for some blogging duty as well. Initially, she will be doing posts related to conferences and calls for paper, so please contact her with requests of this nature from now on.  As she gets comfortable with the blogging, I suspect she will find issues she wants to weigh in on. Over the years, I have found that discussions of NAFTA will usually provoke a strong reaction from her, so perhaps the "NAFTA renegotiation" that the Trump administration tells us is coming will provide the impetus.