United States International Trade Commission Nomination of Robert E. Baldwin To Be a Member.

The President today announced that he will nominate Robert E. Baldwin, of Madison, Wis., to be a member of the United States International Trade Commission for a term expiring June 16, 1981. He would replace Italo Ablondi, who has resigned. Baldwin has been a consultant to the World Bank in Washington, D.C., since 1978 and is a former chairman of the economic department at the University of Wisconsin.

He was born July 12, 1924, in Niagara Falls, N.Y. He received an A.B. from the University of Buffalo in 1945 and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1950.

Baldwin was on the faculty of the University of Buffalo from 1945 to 1946, Harvard University from 1950 to 1957, and the University of California from 1957 to 1964. He was Chief Economist in the Office of the Special Trade Representative from 1963 to 1964 and a professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin from 1964 to 1967.

From 1967 to 1968, Baldwin was a research professor with the Brookings Institution, and in 1969-70 he had a Ford Faculty Research Fellowship. He returned to the faculty of the University of Wisconsin in 1970 and served as F. W. Taussig research professor there in ` and chairman of the economics department from 1975 to 1978. In 1974-75 he was on a research contract for the Labor Department's Bureau of International Labor.

Baldwin has served as a consultant to the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development and is on the board of editors of several economic journals.