"Joshua Cohen helped me become a diplomat…a real one. I met Josh when AmCham Mexico hired me in early 1996 to edit its monthly magazine, Business Mexico. I was an itinerant business journalist and editor with little local knowledge but thanks to Josh’s tutelage, three years later I was appointed Australia’s trade commissioner to Mexico. Josh wasn’t just a smart and observant economist who could see both the seriousness and absurdity of what was going on around us in those chaotic times after the peso crisis and the start of NAFTA. He was also a terrific lunch companion, which is high praise in the world of journalism."

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Bob MacDonald

Trade Commissioner

Australian Trade and Investment Commission 

Mexico, Chile (1999 - 2005)

[Learn more about Bob in Episode #14 - The Promise of NAFTA]