AISI Appoints Barry Solarz Senior Vice President, Trade and Economic Policy

This January, AISI promoted Barry Solarz to senior vice president of trade and economic policy. Previously, he was vice president of trade and economic policy.

"This promotion, which coincides with 25 years of service to AISI, is recognition of Barry's tireless and aggressive efforts to advance the interests of AISI's North American members in the trade arena," Andrew G. Sharkey, III, president and CEO of AISI said. "Barry is widely respected in the U.S. and North America and among members of the International Iron and Steel Institute (IISI) for his knowledge of the key trade and economic policy issues impacting the steel industry. The industry highly values his expertise in this critical area of public policy."

Solarz joined AISI in January 1982. Prior to that, he worked as an international economist at the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of International Labor Affairs' Office of Trade Policy, and as a political/economic risk analyst at the Brookings Institution for Mr. Helmut Sonnenfeldt, former Political Counselor at the U.S. State Department.

At AISI, Solarz helps to develop the trade and economic policy positions of AISI's member companies, and advises U.S. government agencies, other industries and the general public of AISI's views. In that capacity, he staffs the Institute's Council of U.S. Producers and North American Steel Council, serves as an official advisor to the U.S. government on trade policy (ITAC-12) and at OECD meetings, and represents AISI on IISI's Economic Studies Committee and the National Association of Manufacturers' (NAM's) International Economic Policy and Tax and Budget Policy Committees.

Solarz is a graduate of the University of California, and has masters' degrees from the University of Wisconsin and the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He has studied for a year each at the University of Lund, Sweden and the SAIS Bologna Center in Bologna, Italy. For more information, contact Nancy Gravatt.