Marc Fasteau is author, with Ian Fletcher, of Industrial Policy for the United States: Winning the Competition for Good Jobs and High-Value Industries. He is a Vice Chairman of the Coalition for A Prosperous America, the nation's premier bipartisan nonprofit organization working at the intersection of trade, jobs, tax and economic growth. Early in his career, he served on the professional staffs of the US Senate Majority Leader, the House Banking & Currency Committee, and the Joint Economic Committee. He was a partner at the New York investment bank Dillon, Read & Co. He has been involved in questions of international trade and industrial policy for 18 years and has written on international trade and industrial policy in the Financial Times Economist Forum and Palladium magazine. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. He lives in New York City.
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