Susan Ariel Aaronson is an American author, public speaker and an academic professor whose works are centred on the relationship between economic change and human rights and more recently focuses on data. She is a research professor at the Elliott School of International Affairs at

George Washington University , mottoeng = "God is Our Trust" , established = , type = Private federally chartered research university , academic_affiliations = , endowment = $2.8 billion (2022) , presi ...

, where she also founded the Digital Trade and Data Governance Hub of which she is director. Aaronson is also senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation and, previously, served as a fellow of the

World Trade Institute The World Trade Institute (WTI) is an interdisciplinary centre at the University of Bern focused on research, education, and policy support in the areas of global economic governance, international economic law, and international economic susta ...

during 2008 to 2012.

Education

Aaronson received her B.A. in history from

Binghamton University The State University of New York at Binghamton (Binghamton University or SUNY Binghamton) is a public research university with campuses in Binghamton, Vestal, and Johnson City, New York. It is one of the four university centers in the Stat ...

, graduating'' magna cum laude'' as a member of

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. She graduated from

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

with an M.I.A. and M.A. in Political Science and International Affairs and from

Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hemisphere. It consi ...

in 1993 with an M.A. and PhD in Economic and Business History.

Works

Published works by Susan Ariel Aaronson include: *''For the People, But Not by the People: A History of the International Trade Organization (ITO)'' (1993) * *''Taking trade to the streets'' (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) *''Why Trade Agreements are not Setting Information Free: The Lost History and Reinvigorated Debate over Cross-Border Data Flows, Human Rights and National Security'' (2015) *''Protectionism'' (2016) *''The Trump administration’s approach to artificial intelligence is not that smart: it’s about cooperation, not domination'' (2019) *''Artificial Intelligence and Data''. Foreign Policy Association. (2019–20) *''Data is disruptive: How data sovereignty is challenging data governance'' (2021) *''Data Is Different, So Policymakers Should Pay Close Attention to Its Governance'' (2021) *''The West Can Make Russia a Trade Pariah with a Page from Moscow’s Playbook''''The West Can Make Russia a Trade Pariah with a Page from Moscow’s Playbook''
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References

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