Lecture by Prof. John Zysman, Emeritus Professor at Berkeley- Fragmentation or Tectonic Shift: Trump's Tariffs, Europe's Response and the Rise of China

• Florence School of Transnational Governance

The STG is excited to welcome John Zysman, Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley and co-founder/co-director of the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy, for a lecture and conversation on "Fragmentation or Tectonic Shift: Trump's Tariffs, Europe's Response and the Rise of China".

John Zysman is Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley and co-founder/co-director of the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy. He received his B.A at Harvard and his Ph.D. at MIT. Zysman’s ongoing work covers the implications of platforms and intelligent tools for work, entrepreneurship, and international competition; as well as the economic challenges and opportunities of climate change and the green economy.

From these positions, Zysman has made contributions to the policy and intellectual debates, building a record of thought leadership on the global economy going back five decades. His earlier work was influential in US-Japan trade policy debates in the 1980s. More recently, Zysman has co-authored a series of papers documenting how platforms have transformed the production and distribution of goods and services. As a director of the Work and Intelligent Tools and Systems (WITS) initiative at the Center for Information Technology in the Interest of Society (CITRIS), Zysman is currently exploring how the development, deployment, and consequences of technologies can be shaped by business and policy choices. In addition to his academic research, Zysman is engaged as a consultant, advisor, and board member for governments, corporations, and NGOs.