Terra Lawson-Remer

Terra Lawson-Remer is Assistant Professor of International Affairs and Economics at The New School, and Fellow for Civil Society, Markets & Democracy at the Council on Foreign Relations. She previously served as Senior Policy Advisor at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. She is also currently co-director of the Economic & Social Rights Empowerment Initiative and chair of the University’s Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility (ACIR). Her research addresses opportunity and exclusion in the global economy, including: poverty and economic development, property rights, natural resources, global economic governance, fragile states, emerging economies, and rule of law and informal social norms. Terra has conducted field research in Africa, Latin America, Asia, and the South Pacific.

Previously Terra held positions at the UN World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER); Latham & Watkins, LLP; Amnesty International USA; the Ethical Globalization Initiative; and the New York Civil Liberties Union; and worked as a consultant to and organizer for numerous grassroots environmental and social justice organizations. Terra also co-founded and directed STARC: Students Transforming & Resisting Corporations, a national membership-based organization that advocated for corporate responsibility in the face of increased globalization and pushed for greater public accountability by the World Bank, IMF, and WTO.

Terra earned her B.A. in Ethics, Politics & Economics from Yale University; her J.D. from New York University School of Law, where she was a Dean's Merit Scholar; and her Ph.D. in Political Economy from New York University’s Law & Society Institute.