Professor of Political Science and Canadian Studies, BYU
“Trade Wars: The Future of Global Trade and U.S. Competitiveness”
Earl H. Fry is a professor of political science and Endowed Professor of Canadian Studies at Brigham Young University. Fry is also a former special assistant in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. He was the Fulbright bicentennial chair at the University of Helsinki (2011–12) and former Fulbright professor at the Sorbonne in Paris and the University of Toronto. His most recent book is Revitalizing Governance, Restoring Prosperity, and Restructuring Foreign Affairs: The Pathway to Renaissance America. In addition, Fry annually publishes a map of the GDP of U.S. states compared with nation-states around the world. Remarkably, California has moved up to be the world’s fifth-largest “national” economy.