A panel on the future of trade will take place Tuesday, April 17, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in Parents Hall South, Olmsted Center. Panelists include Jim McCaughan, Bob Baur, and Rachel Paine Caufield. Matthew Mitchell, associate professor of international business, will moderate the panel.

Jim McCaughan is an executive with the Principal Financial Group. He is president, global asset management, and chief executive officer of Principal Global Investors. Bob Baur is executive director and chief global economist for Principal Global Investors. In these capacities, he establishes and directs global economic policy and strategy, oversees and conducts macroeconomic and quantitative research, forecasts economic trends and anticipates market movements, and advises the investment staff in making economically sound investment decisions. McCaughan and Baur are frequently quoted by the financial news media and appear regularly on CNBC and Bloomberg Television, among others. Rachel Paine Caufield is an associate professor of political science at Drake. She teaches courses on American politics, with special attention to political institutions, and has coordinated candidate visits and led efforts to host national presidential debates and forums with ABC, CBS, CNN, and Fusion TV.

— Denise Ganpat, Center for Global Citizenship