IPC Staff

Alan Deardorff, Interim director

Alan V. Deardorff is John W. Sweetland Professor of International Economics and Professor of Economics and interim director of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. He is currently serving as Associate Dean of the Ford School. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Cornell University in 1971 and has been on the faculty at the University of Michigan since 1970. He served as Chair of the Department of Economics from 1991 to 1995. He has also served as consultant to many government and international agencies, and is on the editorial boards of several journals. His work on international trade theory has dealt primarily with the theory of comparative advantage and models that explain the patterns and effects of international trade. His work on trade policy has included analyses of anti-dumping laws, safeguards, intellectual property protection, and most recently the Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations in the World Trade Organization. With Professor Stern, he is author of the Michigan Model, a computable general equilibrium model of world production, trade, and employment.

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Zana Kwaiser joined IPC in July 2009 as serves as the Center's program administrator/project coordinator. Prior to IPC, Zana taught high school social studies in Muscatine, Iowa after completing a master's degree in International Studies at the University of Iowa. Her master's research project examined issues of self-identity among Bosnian refugees and persistence of Yugoslav national sentiment. She worked as a program associate at The Stanley Foundation, as well, in Muscatine, Iowa where she gained event and conference planning experience for policy related projects. She holds a bachelors degree in political science from Illinois State University.

Scott Kalafatis, Communications Assistant

Scott Kalafatis has been working as an assistant at IPC since September 2008 with his main responsibility being updating and maintaining the IPC's website. Currently he is a dual Master's degree student at the University of Michigan. Before coming to Ann Arbor, Scott worked in outreach and development at the Urban Ecology Institute in Boston where he redesigned and managed UEI's website and participated in event planning and fundraising activities. He earned a BA from the University of Virginia in 2006.