Biography

Meghan Herwig is a Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of Virginia. She is advised by Professor Philip Zelikow. Her dissertation, tentatively titled “The Global Debate over the Future World Economy, 1989-1998,” examines the origins of our current global trade system. Before coming to UVa, she worked in the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of International Affairs. She has a B.A. in History (with highest honors) and in Peace, War, and Defense from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was a Morehead-Cain Scholar and graduated Phi Beta Kappa.