Merit E. Janow is a professor in the practice of international trade and dean at
Columbia University
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's
School of International and Public Affairs
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from 2013 to 2021.
Biography
Janow teaches graduate courses in international economic and trade policy at SIPA and international trade law and international antitrust at
Columbia University Law School
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. Janow has also served on the
WTO
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in the United Nations System, governments use the organization to establish, revise, and e ...
Appellate Body
The Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization (WTOAB) is a standing body of seven persons that hears appeals from reports issued by panels in disputes brought on by WTO members. The WTOAB can uphold, modify or reverse the legal findings an ...
since November 2003. Since 1997 she has also been an executive director of a new international competition policy advisory committee to the attorney general and assistant attorney general for antitrust at the
Department of Justice
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,
Washington, D.C.
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From February 1990 through July 1993, she was deputy assistant U.S. trade representative for
Japan and
China at the Office of the
U.S. Trade Representative
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. Her responsibilities within USTR included the development, coordination, and implementation of U.S. trade policy and negotiating strategy toward Japan and the People's
Republic of China
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northea ...
. Before joining USTR, Janow was an associate with the law firm of
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom, specializing in mergers and acquisitions and international corporate transactions. From 1980 to 1985, Janow was on the staff of the
Hudson Institute
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, based initially in Tokyo and then in New York.
Janow received a BA from the
University of Michigan
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and a JD from
Columbia University Law School
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. She is a member of the
Council on Foreign Relations
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, the
National Committee on United States–China Relations,
Asia Society
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, and the
Japan Society, among others.
In 2009, she became a member of the International Advisory Council of the Chinese
sovereign wealth fund
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China Investment Corporation
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. She is also an affiliated faculty member of the
Weatherhead East Asian Institute
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.
From 2013 to 2021, she served as dean of Columbia University's
School of International and Public Affairs
The School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University (SIPA) is the international affairs and public policy school of Columbia University, a private Ivy League university located in Morningside Heights, Manhattan, New York City. It ...
.
In 2022, she was named Board Chair of the Japan Society. She is also Independent Chair of
Mastercard.
Selected publications
* "The Future of Competition Policy in the WTO" (Kluwer Law International 2003)
* Unilateral and Bilateral International Approaches to Competition Policy: Drawing on the Trade Experience (Brookings Trade Forum 1998)
* "Competition Policy and the WTO" in The Uruguay Round and Beyond, edited by Jagdish Bhagwati and Matthias Hirsch (University of Michigan Press 1999)
* "U.S. Trade Policy Towards Japan and China" in Trade Policies for a New Era (Council on Foreign Relations Press 1998)
See also
*
WTO
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an intergovernmental organization that regulates and facilitates international trade. With effective cooperation
in the United Nations System, governments use the organization to establish, revise, and e ...
References
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University of Michigan alumni
Columbia Law School alumni
Columbia School of International and Public Affairs faculty
Living people
Members of the Appellate Body
American women non-fiction writers
1958 births
Weatherhead East Asian Institute faculty
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom people