Todd Nathaniel Tucker (born 1979) is an American academic, political scientist, and political commentator who is director of governance studies at the Roosevelt Institute, where he specializes in the study of trade agreements and international law.
Tucker was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the son of Baptist missionaries who worked in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
He is a media commentator on international economic and policy issues who has been cited and published by radio, print and Internet outlets such as the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, The Nation, Dissent Magazine, Foreign Policy In Focus, and other publications.
In 2020, Tucker was named a volunteer member of the Joe Biden presidential transition Agency Review Team to support transition efforts related to the Department of Commerce and the Office of the United States Trade Representative.
[2] On March 31, 2007, Tucker married Heather Boushey, senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research.