Task Force Members

Edward Alden is the Bernard L. Schwartz senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, where his research focuses on issues of U.S. economic competitiveness, including trade and immigration policy. Prior to joining CFR in 2007, he was the Washington bureau chief for the Financial Times. He also served as the FT's bureau chief in Canada from 1998 to 2000. Previously, he was a senior reporter at the Vancouver Sun specializing in labor and employment issues as well as the managing editor of Inside U.S. Trade. He has won several national and international awards for his reporting, and writes for a wide variety of publications, including the Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, and Toronto Globe & Mail. His book, The Closing of the American Border: Terrorism, Immigration and Security Since 9/11, was named a "distinguished finalist" for the 2009 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize for nonfiction. Alden holds a BA from the University of British Columbia and an MA in political science from the University of California, Berkeley.