Clyde V. Prestowitz Jr.


Clyde Prestowitz is the founder and President of the Economic Strategy Institute. He formerly served as counselor to the Secretary of Commerce in the Reagan Administration. He is a labor economist. Prestowitz has written for Foreign Affairs.

Early Life and education

Prestowitz was born to a family with a conservative Republican and evangelical Christian background and earned a B.A. with honors from Swarthmore College; an M.A. in East-West Policies and Economics from the East-West Center of the University of Hawaii; and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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