Warren Maruyama was appointed General Counsel of USTR in January 2007.

Before rejoining USTR, Mr. Maruyama spent fourteen years as a partner in the international law firm of Hogan & Hartson, handling a wide range of trade policy, legislative, and market access issues for clients.   With Ms. Maya Kobersy, Mr. Maruyama received the Distinguished Service Award from the Asian American Justice Center in 2004 and the Excellence in the Legal Profession Award from the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund (MALDEF) in 2003 for their pro bono work to extend Executive Order 13166, which seeks to ensure access to federal programs for Americans with limited English proficiency -- immigrants.  He was listed in Best Lawyers in America in 2005 and 2006. 

Mr. Maruyama served in the White House Office of Policy Development from 1989-1991 as Deputy Associate Director of International Economic Policy, and as Associate Director in 1992, working on President George H.W. Bush’s major international trade policy initiatives, including Super 301, Steel Trade Liberalization, NAFTA, the Uruguay Round, and Enterprise for the Americas.  

From 1983 to 1989, Mr. Maruyama was an Associate General Counsel at USTR, successfully litigating GATT and US-Canada FTA disputes; negotiating trade agreements; and helping draft the Trade and Tariff Act of 1984 and Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988.  He served from 1986-89 as lead U.S. negotiator for the Uruguay Round Subsidies and Countervailing Measures Negotiating Group, including helping negotiate a Montreal Mid-Term Review agreement which established a new framework for strengthening WTO disciplines over trade-distorting subsidies. 

Mr. Maruyama’s first job in government was as an attorney-advisor at the U.S. International Trade Commission, where he advised the Commission on antidumping, countervailing duty, section 337, and section 201 investigations, and successfully litigated appeals from Commission decisions before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and U.S. Court of International Trade. 

Mr. Maruyama is a member of the Board of Governors of the Japanese-American National Museum in Los Angeles.  He was a member of the Board of Directors of the National Council of La Raza from 2004-2006.   He is co-coach of the Takoma Tsunami, a girls select soccer team playing in the MSI Classic League, High School Division. 

Mr. Maruyama grew up in Roseville, Minnesota.  He is a graduate of Carleton College (B.A., 1976) in Northfield, Minnesota, and has a law degree from the Cornell Law School, 1980.  He is married to Karen Chittenden; has a daughter, Hana, and a son, Noah; and lives in the District of Columbia.