Clyde Prestowitz (born 1941) is the founder and President of the Economic Strategy Institute. He formerly served as counselor to the Secretary of Commerce in the Reagan Administration.[1] He is a labor economist.[2] Prestowitz has written for Foreign Affairs.[3]
Prestowitz was born to a family with a conservative Republican and evangelical Christian background[4][5] and earned a B.A. with honors from Swarthmore College; an M.A. in East-West Policies and Economics from the East–West Center of the University of Hawaii; and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.[5][6]
In 2020, Prestowitz, along with over 130 other former Republican national security officials, signed a statement that asserted that President Trump was unfit to serve another term, and "To that end, we are firmly convinced that it is in the best interest of our nation that Vice President Joe Biden be elected as the next President of the United States, and we will vote for him."[7]