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Anthony Frank Kleitz

Anthony Frank Kleitz
Acting Deputy Director, Directorate for Trade,
Head, Division of Trade Liberalisation and Review, OECD, Paris

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, Paris): 1972 to present:
Acting Deputy Director, Directorate for Trade (since May 2006)
Head,  Division of Trade Liberalisation and Review (since March 1995):

  • Planning and supervising a team of researchers and analysts activities on a wide range of trade policy issues: non-tariff barriers to trade, including technical barriers and standards; trade facilitation; agricultural trade; trade-related regulatory issues, including country reviews of regulatory reform; regional trade agreements; government procurement; trade remedy measures; issues of trade and structural adjustment, including sectoral developments; etc.);
  • Organising meetings among government officials, both of OECD and non-OECD countries as well as other experts (from academia, business, NGOs and other international organisations) to discuss this outcome and related issues.

Head, Division of Policy Interrelations (April 1993-March 1995)

  • Planning and supervision of activities relating to the “New Trade Agenda” (trade and competition policy; trade and investment; trade and environment; trade and labour standards; globalisation; trade and technology/industry policy).

Principal Administrator

  • Division of General Trade Policy and Related Issues (1986-93, working on issues of trade in services, regional integration, etc.)

University instructor (Paris)

  • American University of Paris (2003) Organised and taught a course in the economics department on international theory and policy;
  • Boston University, Graduate Overseas Program: 1990-1993: organized and taught a course on international political economy for the master’s program in international relations and a course on macroeconomics for the progam in business management.

EDUCATION:

  • Ph.D (1973), Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts (Dissertation:  “Non-tariff barrier liberalisation at the Kennedy Round”);
  • Diploma (1969), Graduate Institute of International Studies, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland;
  • Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy (1968), Fletcher School of Law and diplomacy, Tufts University;
  • Bachelor of Arts with distinction (1966), Stanford University, Stanford, California.

PERSONAL:

  • United States citizen (born Lansing, Michigan).