William Powers

Dr. William (Bill) Powers is Chief Economist and Director, Office of Economics at the U.S. International Trade Commission. He directs the economic analysis in the Commission’s fact-finding investigations for Congress and the U.S. President, such as the recent report on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and in antidumping and countervailing duty investigations. He joined the Commission in 2005 after earning his PhD in economics from the University of Michigan. He has published on empirical trade topics including trade agreements, trade finance, and global value chains. In international networks, he served as the Co-Chair of the APEC Trade-in-Value-Added (TiVA) Initiative in 2016, and he originated the North American TiVA initiative in 2014. During the global trade downturn of 2008–09, Dr. Powers served in a one-year position as a senior international economist at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) in both the Bush and Obama Administrations.