Todd Tucker


Todd Nathaniel Tucker is a fellow at the specializing in trade agreements and international law.
His work focuses on the legal, economic and political implications of the World Trade Organization, North American Free Trade Agreement, Central America Free Trade Agreement and other and . He is a media commentator on international economic and policy issues who has been cited and published by radio, print and Internet outlets such as the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, The Nation, Dissent Magazine, Foreign Policy In Focus, and other publications. In 2018, his book was published by Anthem Press.
A Gates Scholar, he received his PhD from the University of Cambridge and his B.A. from . He was research director of division and primary blogger at . He is co-author of , a 2009 book about the history of the expansion of executive-branch involvement in the formation of U.S. trade policy - and the expansion of trade policy into non-tariff matters like consumer protection rules. Tucker was also a policy analyst with the . According to The Nation, Tucker was a leader of the United Students Against Sweatshops student movement. He has also helped lead the movement to create staff trade unions at non-governmental organizations, according to a 2004 article from the .

Family

According to a Washington Post article from 2001, Tucker was raised as the son of Baptist missionaries in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
On March 31, 2007, Tucker married Heather Boushey, chief economist at the Center for American Progress, according to the .