Jonathan R. Weinberger was installed as Executive Secretary and Associate General Counsel for the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) in April 2008.  In this capacity, Mr. Weinberger is a principle member of the senior staff and is intimately involved with strategic planning and decision meetings including on the WTO Doha Round and the Free Trade Agreement strategy teams.  Mr. Weinberger also coordinates USTR’s work with the National Security Council (NSC) and other agencies, including preparation for USTR briefings to the President.  He is the principal agency point of contact for the White House Staff Secretary, NSC, and National Economic Council staff to coordinate interagency actions and to represent Agency positions.  He also represents the agency at Deputy Committee Meetings of the NSC, and attends senior White House staff meetings, as needed.  In short, Mr. Weinberger manages the day to day operations of the agency and ensures consistent policy and product.       

From 2007-2008, Mr. Weinberger served as the Senior Counselor for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes at the U.S. Treasury.  In this position, Mr. Weinberger served as Treasury’s representative to the Senior Interagency Strategy Team at National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC).  This group is a policy making committee that reports to the Director of NCTC and is comprised of a senior representative from each agency in the Intelligence community.  Mr. Weinberger also played a significant role in coordinating a new Treasury initiative called the Private Sector Dialogue (PSD).  These dialogues facilitated discourse among banks and regulators from the Middle East and North Africa and Latin America.  Mr. Weinberger served as a moderator at the first U.S.-Latin America dialogue in Bogota last April that featured Vice President Francisco Santos of Colombia.  He also helped kick off the third Middle East North Africa PSD in Dubai this past December.  In addition, Mr. Weinberger managed and coordinated legal issues with respect to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the premier international body that combats money laundering and terrorist financing and served as senior liaison to the National Counterterrorism Center, NSC, and other interagency groups.  He also delivered Treasury’s position on proliferation finance at the 2007 Proliferation Security Initiative meeting that included defense ministries form around the world in Auckland, New Zealand.  

In March 2006, Mr. Weinberger was appointed as Executive Secretary of the United States Treasury Department.  In this position, Mr. Weinberger was responsible for the coordination of Department-wide reviews and analyses of Treasury policy initiatives, regulations, testimony, correspondence, memoranda, reports and briefing materials for the Secretary and Deputy Secretary.  Mr. Weinberger served as a principle member of the transition team for Secretary Paulson and assisted Secretary Paulson with Treasury policy and procedures.  Mr. Weinberger also coordinated and undertook special projects at the request of the Secretary, Deputy Secretary and the Chief of Staff.

From 2005-2006, Weinberger served as a senior advisor in Treasury's Office of Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes. In this capacity he provided advice and counsel to Department principals and other members of the interagency team that are responsible for the combating of money laundering and terrorist financing. Weinberger also played a vital role with the FATF.  He was closely involved with FATF's evaluation of the United States financial system, and served as the United States' representative on the six-nation inaugural Financial Experts Review Group at the Cape Town, South Africa Winter Plenary. The Experts Review Group acted as arbiters for the FATF mutual evaluations of the soundness of the financial systems of Ireland and Sweden.  He later served on the FATF Experts Review Group for the evaluations of China, the UK, Denmark, Greece, and others.

Mr. Weinberger served as an Honors Attorney from 2003-2005 in Treasury’s Office of the General Counsel.  As an attorney, Mr. Weinberger worked with the Assistant General Counsel for Litigation, Legislation and Financial Enforcement on a variety of issues.  He also worked closely with the General Counsel on various national security issues and other Treasury related activity including coinage, Health Savings Accounts and tax issues among others. 

Before coming to the Treasury Department, Mr. Weinberger spent several years with the U.S. Department of State.  At State, he served in the Office of Central American Affairs, at the U.S. Embassy in Rome, and from 2000-2003, he served in the Executive Secretariat in the Office of the Secretary of State where he coordinated briefing materials, testimony and other matters for the Secretary and the Deputy Secretary. 

Originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania, Mr. Weinberger received his Bachelors Degree in International Affairs and Italian from The Johns Hopkins University.  He also earned a Masters Degree in U.S. Foreign Policy from the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University, a Juris Doctor degree from the Washington College of Law at American University, and a Masters of Law (LL.M) in international finance and national security law with distinction from The Georgetown University Law Center.