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Ambassador Susan Schwab
United States Trade Representative
www.ustr.gov
Ambassador Susan C. Schwab, Deputy United States Trade Representative, was
nominated to serve as the United States Trade Representative on April 18, 2006.
She was confirmed unanimously by the United States Senate as Deputy USTR on
November 10, 2005. In this capacity she is responsible for trade policy
development, negotiation and implementation across a range of issues and
regions. Ambassador Schwab’s portfolio includes 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 and Colombia.
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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