Joe Pickard serves as the international trade economist for Buchanan’s International Trade and National Security Practice Group. With more than 20 years of experience in domestic and international consulting, intergovernmental work and association management, Joe brings expertise in economics, international trade and finance, commodity markets and industrial production to support Buchanan’s trade remedy work.

He previously served as chief economist and director of commodities for the Recycled Materials Association, economist for the International Copper Study Group in Lisbon, Portugal, and a research and international trade analyst at Slayton & Associates.

Joe has served as an advisor to CEOs and other C-suite executives on current and future economic and market conditions and as a nonpartisan advisor to the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.

He is a member of the Bretton Woods Committee, the preeminent nonprofit organization dedicated to effective global economic and financial cooperation.

Joe holds a master’s degree in economics from Virginia Tech and a bachelor’s degree from Loyola University Maryland.