Recalibrating the Global Trading System
Mary E. Lovely is the Anthony M. Solomon Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. She served as the 2022 Carnegie Chair in US-China Relations with the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. Lovely is professor emeritus of economics at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, where she was the Melvin A. Eggers Economics Faculty Scholar from 2010 to April 2022. She was co-editor of the China Economic Review during 2011–15.
Her current research projects investigate the effect of China's foreign direct investment policies on trade flows and entry mode, strategic reform of US tariffs on China, and recent movements in global supply chains. Lovely earned her Ph.D. in economics at the University of Michigan and a master's degree in city and regional planning from Harvard University.
Lovely is a regular guest on news and radio programs and a frequent commentator on current international and global economic policy.
Dr. Lovely will deliver the 2025-26 McKenna Lecture in International Economics and Trade.