Daniel K. Tarullo

Senior Fellow

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Daniel K. Tarullo is Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center. He returned to full-time law teaching in 1999 after a decade in private practice and government service. He teaches in the areas of international economic regulation, banking law, and international law. During the fall 2005 semester he was a visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He was Frederick H. Schultz Professor of International Economic Policy at Princeton University during the fall 2004 semester.

Professor Tarullo's recent publications include articles on sovereign debt problems, the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, dispute settlement in the World Trade Organization, and reforms to the international financial system. He is currently at work on a book dealing with international banking regulation.

Professor Tarullo held several senior positions in the Clinton administration, ultimately as Assistant to the President for International Economic Policy, responsible for coordinating the international economic policy of the administration. He was a principal on both the National Economic Council and the National Security Council. Prior to his appointment to that position, he had been Deputy Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, with special responsibility for regulatory and international issues.

From 1993 until early 1996, he was Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs. In March 1995, President Clinton appointed Tarullo as his personal representative ("sherpa") to the G-7/G-8 group of industrialized nations, with responsibility for coordinating U.S. positions for the annual Leaders Summits. He continued this assignment after he moved to the White House, participating in four summits.

Before joining the administration, Professor Tarullo practiced law in Washington and served as Chief Counsel for Employment Policy on the staff of Senator Edward M. Kennedy. Earlier in his career he worked in the Antitrust Division of the Justice Department, served as Special Assistant to the Undersecretary of Commerce, and taught at Harvard Law School.

Professor Tarullo graduated summa cum laude in 1977 from the University of Michigan Law School, where he was Article & Book Review Editor of the Law Review. He received his A.B. from Georgetown University in 1973 and completed an M.A. at Duke University in 1974.

Professor Tarullo spent a year as a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is currently a non-resident senior fellow at American Progress.

Outside the Law Center, he runs the bi-monthly World Economic Update, a forum sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations for debate on the U.S. and global economies among leading economists. He serves on the editorial advisory board of The International Economy and the Advisory Committee of Transparency International, a non-governmental organization whose aim is to fight government corruption around the world. During 2005 he chaired the economic security group of the Princeton Project on National Security.