Dr. Meltzer is a senior fellow in the Global Economy and Development program at the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C. At Brookings. Meltzer is an expert on international trade law and policy issues and leads the Digital Economy and Trade Project. Meltzer has testified before the U.S. Congress, the U.S. International Trade Commission and the European Parliament on digital trade issues. He has been an expert witness in litigation on digital trade and privacy issues in the EU and a consultant to the World Bank on trade and privacy matters. He is also a member of Australia's National Data Advisory Council. Meltzer teaches various course on digital trade and on global data flows and the law at Melbourne University, Monash University, McGill University and University of Toronto. He has also taught international trade law as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law School and Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies and has been a guest lecturer on digital trade at Columbia University Law School Prior to joining Brookings, Meltzer was posted as a diplomat at the Australian Embassy in Washington D.C. where he was responsible for trade, climate and energy issues and prior to that he was an international trade lawyer and trade negotiator in Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. He has also worked as an attorney at Sackville Wilks & Co in Melbourne, Australia. Meltzer has appeared in print and news media, including the Economist, the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, Bloomberg, MSNBC, CBS, Fox, the Asahi Shimbun and China Daily. Meltzer holds an S.J.D. and LL.M. from the University of Michigan Law School in Ann Arbor and law and commerce degrees from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.
