Professor Curzon-Price will discuss the correlation between the degree of economic freedom and the measures of economic success--such as levels of income, growth, poverty reduction and life expectancy--as seen in the growing gap in living standards between free and unfree societies. Free international trade is a vehicle for the expansion of economic freedom into many of the poorest nations of the world.

Professor Victoria Curzon-Price has been a Professor in the Economics Department of the University of Geneva since 1992.

From 1994 to 1998 she was Director of the European Institute, University of Geneva. Professor Curzon-Price has also been Visiting Professor at the Europa Instituut at the University of Amsterdam; a Faculty Member of the IMI (International Management Institute) in Geneva; and an economics correspondent for Radio Suisse Romande. She was a professor at the Graduate Institute of European Studies, Economics Section, at the University of Geneva from 1972 to 1992.

She is the author of several books and articles published in professional journals on international trade and European integration.

Her publications include: Residual Obstacles to Trade in the Single Market (1996); 1992: Europe's Last Chance? From Common Market to Single Market (1989); La Suisse et le Marché Unique(1990); and Industrial Policy in the European Community in the Economics of the European Community (1990).