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William George is Director of Research at ImportGenius.
He built and runs ImportGenius’s research department, which examines social and economic issues through the lens of trade data. The department’s work has contributed to a number of major headlines and documentaries, including Shadow Men, a Peabody-nominated Wall Street Journal documentary investigating the Wagner Mercenary Group. Investigations the department has undertaken span topics as diverse as deforestation, export control and sanctions violations, arms shipments, tainted medicines in pharmaceutical supply chains, and tariff fraud.
The department has also extensively analyzed trade disruptions, including the Red Sea closure, the 2024 US port strike, US tariff implications, US tariff frontloading, and COVID-related supply chain snarls. William began work at ImportGenius as an analyst examining the 2018 US-China trade war. He has been cited extensively in international media on topics related to the department’s work and discoveries.
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