Patricia Adams
Economist; Executive Director, Probe International; author.
Last Contribution:
Help Haiti Build A Real Government
Contributor Biography
Ms. Adams is an economist and the Executive Director of Probe International – an independent think-tank and watchdog over Canadian aid and trade. Her books include In the Name of Progress: The Underside of Foreign Aid, and Odious Debts: Loose Lending, Corruption and the Third World’s Environmental Legacy, which exposes the jeopardy of years of loose lending and proposes a legal remedy to place responsibility for the Third World's debt crisis on the parties involved, not on Third World citizens. She is also the editor of the English language translation of Yangtze! Yangtze!, the extraordinary critique by Chinese experts of the Three Gorges dam that inspired the democracy movement when it was first published in 1989, and was subsequently banned by Chinese authorities. Today, she publishes Internet news services on Chinese environmental issues and rule of law reforms.
She is a frequent expert witness before congressional and legislative committees in the U.S., Canada, and the European Union and a contributor to the Wall Street Journal, Guardian, New Statesman, the National Post and Globe and Mail. She has also appeared on many of Canada's major radio,TV, news and current affairs programs as well as abroad on British, Australian, French, Thai, and Japanese broadcast media.
