Rachel Thrasher

Rachel Thrasher is an academic researcher with the Global Economic Governance Initiative at the Boston University Global Development Policy Center and serves as team lead for the Trade and Investment Rules workstream. She holds a JD and a Master’s degree in International Relations, both from Boston University. She works on policy issues related to trade and investment agreements, policy space for development, intellectual property and access to medicines and the climate impacts of trade and investment treaties. She is the author of the book, Constraining Development: The Shrinking of Policy Space in the International Trade Regime, published by Anthem Press in 2021. She currently teaches International Economic Law and Climate Change at the Boston University School of Law, and International Law at Northeastern University School of Law.