Tuesday, December 19, 2023 

The Colony Palm Beach
(“WAC Members Only”)                 
155 Hammon Avenue
Palm Beach, Florida 33480

6:00 p.m. – Registration & Social
6:30 p.m. – 7:45 p.m. Speaker Presentation

Speaker Profile: Clyde Prestowitz will discuss the U.S. and the Global Economy. Speaker Profile:  Clyde Prestowitz is President of Economic Strategy Institute. For more than fifty years, Prestowitz has studied, lived, and worked in Asia, Europe, and Latin America as well as in the United States and has become noted as a leading strategist on globalization and competitiveness. His best -selling books include: Trading Places, Rogue Nation, Three Billion New Capitalists, The Betrayal of American Prosperity and Japan Restored. Prestowitz led the first U.S. trade mission to China in 1982 and  served as advisor to Presidents Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Clinton, and Obama. He has also worked closely with CEOs such as Chrysler’s Lee Iacocca, and Fred Smith of FedEx. Prestowitz has served on the Advisory Boards of Indonesia’s Center for International Studies and of Israel’s Ministry of Industry and Labor. As Counselor to the Secretary of Commerce in the Reagan administration, Mr. Prestowitz headed negotiations with Japan, South Korea, and China. Under the Clinton administration he served as Vice Chairman of the Presidential Commission on Trade and Investment in the AsiaPacific Region. 

Prior to these posts, Prestowitz had a successful corporate marketing career, working with Scott Paper Company Europe in Brussels, Egon Zehnder International in Tokyo, and the American Can Company.

Mr. Prestowitz holds a B.A. with honors from Swarthmore College; an M.A. in Asia Studies from the University of Hawaii and Tokyo’s Keio University, and an M.B.A. from the Wharton Graduate School of Business. He speaks Japanese, Dutch, German, and French. Prestowitz’s newest book is The World Turned Upside Down: China, America and the Struggle for Global Leadership (Yale University Press) which published in January 2021.