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Ambassador Susan C. Schwab |
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10/19/2007 |
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United States Trade Representative
Ambassador Susan C. Schwab was nominated to be United States Trade Representative by President George W. Bush on April 18, 2006, and was confirmed as USTR by the United States Senate on June 8, 2006. As USTR, Ambassador Schwab is a member of the President's Cabinet and serves as the President’s principal trade advisor, negotiator, and spokesperson on trade issues. Prior to her appointment as USTR, Ambassador Schwab served as Deputy USTR with a portfolio overseeing U.S. trade relations with Europe and Eurasia, the Middle East, and the Americas. In addition she is
responsible for USTR operations involving the WTO and multilateral affairs;
services and investment; intellectual property; industry, market access and
telecommunications; and intergovernmental affairs and public liaison
activities. Since her arrival at
USTR, Ambassador Schwab has been actively engaged in the development of
U.S. strategy in the Doha
Round multilateral trade negotiations, and successfully concluded bilateral free
trade agreements with Peru,
Colombia, Panama and South Korea.
Ambassador Schwab served as Dean
of the University of Maryland School of Public Policy from 1995 through
2003. Immediately before joining
the Administration, she held the position of President and CEO of the University
System of Maryland (USM) Foundation and USM Vice Chancellor for
Advancement. Schwab came to the University of Maryland from Motorola, Inc., where she served as
Director of Corporate Business Development, and where she was engaged in
strategic planning and negotiation on behalf of the company in
China and elsewhere in
Asia. Prior to that appointment she was
Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Director General of the U.S. & Foreign
Commercial Service during the Administration of George H.W. Bush.
Schwab spent most of the 1980s as
a trade policy specialist and then legislative director for Senator John C.
Danforth (R-Mo.), playing a major role in numerous U.S. trade policy
initiatives, including landmark trade legislation that Congress enacted in 1984
and 1988. Previously, Schwab served as a Trade Policy Officer in the U.S.
Embassy in Tokyo. Her first job was as an
agricultural trade negotiator in the Office of the U.S. Trade
Representative.
Ambassador Schwab is a member of
the Council on Foreign Relations and a Fellow of the National Academy of Public
Administration (NAPA). She previously served on the Board
of Visitors of the U.S. Air Force Academy, Board of Trustees of the Council for
Excellence in Government and the National Selection Committee for the
Innovations in American Government Awards program. She holds a B.A. in
Political Economy from Williams
College, a Masters in Development
Policy from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. in Public
Administration and International Business from The George Washington
University.
Ambassador Schwab has published
articles and a book on U.S. trade policy and legislation
(“Trade-Offs: Negotiating the Omnibus Trade Act,” Harvard Business School Press,
1994), as well as articles on U.S.–Japan trade relations, trade politics, and
public policy education.
In
addition to the time she has spent working overseas, Ambassador Schwab is the
product of a Foreign Service family and grew up in Africa, Europe and
Asia.
She currently resides in Annapolis, Maryland.
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