Dan Ikenson is director of Cato’s Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies, where he coordinates and conducts research on all manner of international trade and investment policy. Since joining Cato in 2000, Ikenson has authored dozens of papers on various aspects of trade policy, focusing his research on U.S.-China trade relations; bilateral and multilateral trade agreements and institutions; globalization; U.S. manufacturing issues; trade politics; and trade remedies, such as the antidumping regime.
Ikenson has been involved in international trade since 1990. Before joining the Cato Institute in 2000, he was director of international trade planning for an international accounting and business advisory firm. In 1997 he cofounded and was a principal at an international trade consulting firm in Washington,.and from 1990 to 1997 he was a trade policy and antidumping analyst at a few international trade law practices. In addition to his many studies and articles, Ikenson is coauthor of the book Antidumping Exposed: The Devilish Details of Unfair Trade Law. He has testified before congressional committees on a variety of policy matter and has appeared on numerous television news programs and networks, including PBS, CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg TV, MSNBC, ABC News, Fox News, Fox Business News, and NPR. His articles have been published in widely circulated newspapers and magazines, including the Wall Street Journal,the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, the Chicago Tribune, the Washington Times, the Detroit News, Forbes, and National Review.
Ikenson holds a MA in economics from George Washington University.
![Daniel J. Ikenson's The Hill article, "Navarro's trade views 'misguided', 'dangerous'," is cited on CNBC's Power Lunch](https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/styles/resp__img__multimedia-sides-2x/s3/multimedia/2017/ikenson-cnbc-3-31-17.jpg?itok=xt-eHopv×tamp=1491233486 "Daniel J. Ikenson's The Hill article, "Navarro's trade views 'misguided', 'dangerous'," is cited on CNBC's Power Lunch")
