{"id":3,"date":"2011-08-08T20:41:25","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T20:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/kamalsaggi\/homepage\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T18:35:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T23:35:32","slug":"homepage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/kamalsaggi\/","title":{"rendered":"A short bio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/136\/2011\/08\/t3dsc_0083.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-564\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/136\/2011\/08\/t3dsc_0083-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/136\/2011\/08\/t3dsc_0083-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/136\/2011\/08\/t3dsc_0083-459x650.jpg 459w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/136\/2011\/08\/t3dsc_0083.jpg 499w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px\">KAMAL SAGGI<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><strong>Chair, Department of Economics<br \/>\nFrances &amp; John Downing Family Professor<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Vanderbilt University<br \/>\nE-mail:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:k.saggi@vanderbilt.edu\">k.saggi@vanderbilt.edu<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Welcome to my webpage! I am Chair of the Department of Economics and the inaugural holder of the Frances &amp; John Downing Family Endowed Chair at Vanderbilt University. I also hold courtesy appointments in the Vanderbilt Law School and the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Two major themes underlying my research are: (<em>i<\/em>) the inter-relationships between intellectual property rights protection, trade, and technology transfer in the global economy and the (<em>ii<\/em>) economic underpinnings of the rules and regulations of the contemporary multilateral trading system as embodied in the major\u00a0trade agreements of the World Trade Organization and its dispute settlement process.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Here are some of my <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/kamalsaggi\/publications\/\">recent publications<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong>A fairly complete list of my research papers and publications can be found on my <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?hl=en&amp;user=J8hp3IUAAAAJ&amp;view_op=list_works&amp;cstart=60\/\">Google Scholar page<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0or my <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ideas.repec.org\/e\/psa191.html\">REPEC page<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KAMAL SAGGI Chair, Department of Economics Frances &amp; John Downing Family Professor Vanderbilt University E-mail:\u00a0k.saggi@vanderbilt.edu Welcome to my webpage! I am Chair of the Department of Economics and the inaugural holder of the Frances &amp; John Downing Family Endowed Chair at Vanderbilt University. I also hold courtesy appointments in the Vanderbilt Law School and the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/kamalsaggi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/kamalsaggi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/kamalsaggi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/kamalsaggi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/kamalsaggi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":286,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/kamalsaggi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1068,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/kamalsaggi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3\/revisions\/1068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/kamalsaggi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/kamalsaggi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}