Lori Wallach
Lori Wallach: Director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch division.
A Harvard-trained lawyer, Wallach has promoted the public interest regarding globalization and international commercial agreements in every forum: Congress and foreign parliaments, the courts, government agencies, and the media. Wallach has been described as “Ralph Nader with a sense of humor” in a Wall Street Journal profile, “the Trade Debate's Guerrilla Warrior” in the National Journal, and “Madame Defarge of Seattle” by the Institute for International Economics. Wallach has been a leader in popularizing the trade and globalization debate and in creating new methodologies for effective public interest campaigns on trade and globalization issues. Wallach’s work in “translating” arcane trade legalese – indeed, entire international commercial agreements – into relevant, accessible prose and connecting people’s lived experiences with pacts’ legal requirements, has helped empower more diverse participation in trade and globalization discussions. In 1993, Wallach was a founder of the Citizens Trade Campaign, a national coalition of consumer, labor, environmental, family farm, religious, and civil rights groups representing over 11 million Americans, and now serves on its board. Wallach, a graduate of Wellesley College and Harvard Law School, is a member of the Wisconsin bar. Wallach has previously worked on Capitol Hill, in television news, and on electoral campaigns. She lives in the historic Mount Pleasant neighborhood of Washington, DC.