Book
The International Procurement System: Liberalization & Protectionism (Washington: Dalston Press, 2022). Available from Amazon (paperback and Kindle); Apple bookstore (ePub); and IngramSpark (paperback).
Chapters
“Preferences and Unilateral Measures in Public Procurement” in The Economics and Law of Public Procurement: New Global Scenarios, edited by A. Castelli, G. Piga and T. Tátrai (Routledge, 2025).
“Growing Significance of Regional Trade Agreements in Opening Public Procurement Markets” in Challenges of Public Procurement Reforms, edited by A. Castelli, G. Piga, S. Saussier and T. Tatrai, 184-218 (Routledge, 2020).
“Public Procurement in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Negotiations” with Steve Woolcock, in Rule-Makers or Rule-Takers? Exploring the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, edited by D. Hamilton and J. Pelkmans (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015).
Select Articles and Papers
“European Court Restricts Foreign Firms’ Access to EU Procurement,” Feature Comment, 66 The Government Contractor, ¶ 330 (December 11, 2024).
Key International Procurement Developments in 2023, Briefing Paper (Thomson Reuters, February 2024).
2023 Developments in International Procurement (Dalston Press, January 2024).
Climate Advisers, “Priming the Pump: The Importance of Green Public Procurement in Decarbonizing Industry and Creating a Clean Energy Economy,” major contributor (October 2023.
“Preferences and Unilateral Measures in Public Procurement,” paper presented at 5th International Symposium on Public Procurement, organized by the University of Rome Tor Vergata, in collaboration with Sardegna Ricerche (Cagliari, Italy, September 28-29, 2023).
“Interplay between Domestic Preferences and Trade Agreements,” panel participant, Government Construction Contracts Program – Build America, Buy America: The State of Domestic Sourcing Requirements for Infrastructure Projects, sponsored by Federal Procurement Institute, American Bar Association (Annapolis, Maryland, March 9, 2023).
“Converging Procurement Systems – Developments in 2022”, presented at Thomson Reuters’ Government Contracts Year in Review Conference (2023) (presented annually from 2006 through 2022).
“GPA Reciprocal Conditions: Leverage for Bilateral Agreements,” 29 Public Procurement Law Review. 272-288 (2020).
“U.S. Government Agency Report, “Limited Purchases from Foreign Sources,” 28 Public Procurement Law Review (2019).
“An Assessment of WTO GPA Membership: Current Status and Future Prospects,” 27 Public Procurement Law Review (2018).
“Trump Administration Seeks Comments on Trade Agreements and Buy American Laws,” The Government Contractor (September 2017).
“Trade Agreements Open Foreign Procurement Markets,” Briefing Paper (Thomson Reuters, 2017).
“Brexit: Trade Implications,” Briefing Paper (Thomson Reuters, 2016).
“Government Procurement in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP),” Featured Comment, The Government Contractor (2016).
“What Are the Prospects for Concluding Work on China’s GPA Accession in 2015?,” 24 Public Procurement Law Review (2015).
“Negotiations of Trade in Services Agreement,” Feature Comment, The Government Contractor (2015).
“NASPO Guide to International Trade Agreements,” National Association of State Procurement Officials (2014).
“Recent Developments in International Trade Agreements Covering Government Procurement,” 35 Public Contract Law Journal, 385-407 (2006).
“International Procurement,” 35 The International Lawyer (with Alan Gourley and Frederick Shaheen) 395-405 (2001).
“Uncertain Prospects for Japan’s Bid Challenge Mechanism,” 3 Public Procurement Law Review, NA81-NA90 (2001).
“Japan’s Regulation of Large Retail Stores: Political Demands Versus Economic Interests,” 22 University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Economic Law, 1-60 (2001).
“Japan’s New Public Comment Procedures,” The American Chamber of Commerce of Japan Newsletter, 3- 4 (1999).
“An Overview of the Japanese Government Procurement System,” 7 Public Procurement Law Review, 131-46 (1998).
“Japan: Recent Developments in Local Government Procurement-Use of Overall Greatest Value Methodology,” 8 Public Procurement Law Review, 129-30 (1998).
“Recent Developments in Foreign Legal Services in Japan,” 27 American Bar Association International Law News, 7-9 (1998).
“Japan’s Implementation of the WTO Agreement on Government Procurement,” 17 University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Economic Law, 605-57 (1996).
“U.S.-Japan Government Procurement Agreements,” 14 Wisconsin International Law Journal, 1-68 (1995).
“The Use of Section 301 to Open Japanese Markets to Foreign Firms,” North Carolina Journal of International Law, 1-44 (1992).
“Housing Law and Policy in Japan: An Introductory Critique,” 20 Law in Japan 102-30 (1987).
Djaghe Reference Papers
“The Government Procurement Agreement under the World Trade Organization,” Djaghe Reference Paper, DRP 20-01 (2020).
“U.S. Trade Agreements with Procurement Commitments,” Djaghe Reference Paper, DRP 20-02 (2020).
“U.S. Procurement Covered under Trade Agreements,” Djaghe Reference Paper, DRP 20-03 (2020).
“U.S. Laws Limit Procurement Commitments,” Djaghe Reference Paper, DRP-04 (2020).
“EU Regional Trade Agreements with Procurement Commitments,” Djaghe Reference Paper, DRP-05 (2020).
David Alan Grier is the Digital Technology and Communications Principal at Djaghe LLC. He has over 35 years of experience working in private industry, universities, and professional societies.
In publications, he was the editor-in-chief of two magazines published by the Computer Society of the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). He served as Director of its magazine group, Publisher for the Computer Society, and a member of the IEEE Press Committee. He has been a columnist or contributing editor for many periodicals, including Computer Magazine, Consumer Electronics Magazine, IEEE Annals, and The Communications of the Chinese Computing Federation (published in Mandarin). He has authored five books, including When Computers Were Human (Princeton University Press, 2005), and produced numerous podcasts, such as “The Known World,” “The Errant Hashtag,” and “The CrowdPod.” Full list of his publications.
In Academe, he was an associate professor at the George Washington University, where he served as Assistant Dean of Engineering, Associate Dean of International Affairs, and Director of the Interdisciplinary Honors Program. He holds a PhD in Mathematical Statistics from the University of Washington and an undergraduate degree in Mathematics from Middlebury College.
In Industry, he began his career as a software engineer for Burroughs Computer Corporation. He has worked as a consultant to technology firms, helped to organize the Crowdsortium Trade Association, and served as Director of Global Policy for the IEEE. He was also the President of the Computer Society.
In the Performing Arts, he served on the Board of Trustees of the Shakespeare Theatre (Washington, DC) and has consulted with other performing arts organizations on issues of technology and management. He has also authored and produced audio dramas, including A Bustle, A Corset, & The London Necropolis Express and Add Subtract Unite Divide.
Jean Heilman Grier is the International Trade Principal at Djaghe LLC. She has over 35 years of experience in international trade as a trade negotiator, lawyer, adviser, and consultant.
At Djaghe LLC, she advises businesses, organizations, and governments on a wide variety of international procurement and trade issues. Her expertise includes global procurement, trade policy, U.S. trade laws, international trade agreements, and trade negotiations. She is the author of The International Procurement System: Liberalization & Protectionism (Dalston Press, 2022) and numerous other publications on international procurement and other trade topics. Since 2013, she has written the blog, Perspectives on Trade.
At the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, she served as Senior Procurement Negotiator. In that role, she led the development of trade policy related to public procurement and negotiations for the United States on the World Trade Organization’s Government Procurement Agreement and procurement chapters in numerous free trade agreements across the globe, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
At the U.S. Department of Commerce, she served as Senior Counsel for Trade Agreements. In that position, she engaged in a broad range of international trade issues, including the negotiations of the North American Free Trade Agreement and numerous bilateral agreements with Japan. She also participated in anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations, as well as investigations conducted under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962.
Prior to entering the U.S. government, she was an Assistant Attorney General with the State of Minnesota. In that Office, she served as Chief of the Public Utilities Division, representing the State in electric, gas, and telecommunications rate cases, Chief of the Consumer Protection Division, litigating consumer fraud cases, and as the first attorney for the Minnesota Environmental Quality Board.
She received law degrees from the University of Minnesota (J.D.) and the University of Washington (LL.M in Asian Law) and an undergraduate degree in Political Science from South Dakota State University. As a Fulbright Scholar at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan, she conducted research in Japanese administrative law. She is a member of the District of Columbia Bar.