Bradford Ward

Principal Deputy General Counsel and AUSTR for Monitoring and Enforcement

Bradford Ward is a Deputy General Counsel and the Assistant United States Trade Representative for Monitoring and Enforcement. His responsibilities include supervising litigation under the WTO and free trade agreements, providing counsel on trade negotiations and legislative matters, addressing various agency administrative matters, and assisting in the management of more than 30 attorneys in the Office of General Counsel. He is also the Director of the Interagency Trade Enforcement Center established by the President through Executive Order 13601.

From 1992 to 2009, he was an associate, counsel, then partner in the International Trade Group at Dewey Ballantine (later Dewey & LeBoeuf) in Washington, DC. His practice involved substantial trade remedy litigation before federal agencies, U.S. courts, and NAFTA panels as well as advice to and negotiation on behalf of companies and industry associations on a variety of issues including trade policy, industry strategy, governmental affairs, and press relations. Representative clients included associations in the domestic steel, lumber, semiconductor, and shrimp industries. During this time he was variously a member and chairman of the recruiting committee, and hiring partner for the Washington office.

From 1986 to 1992, he served as international trade analyst and program manager at the United States Department of Commerce conducting and managing countervailing and antidumping duty investigations involving a wide variety of industries and countries. While at Commerce, he received a Gold Medal Award, the Department’s highest service award, and was selected as a Legis Fellow and worked in the office of a United States Senator on trade, technology, and export issues. Previously he was an associate working on various trade matters, including countervailing duty and section 337 litigation, with the law firm of Ablondi & Foster. 

He holds a law degree from the Washington College of Law at American University and an undergraduate degree in political science from the University of Oregon.