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Robert Bruce Zoellick (born July 25, 1953), appointed United States Trade Representative, assumed office on February 7, 2001. As USTR, he is a member of President George W. Bush's Executive Office, with the rank of Ambassador. Zoellick is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, as well as the Trilateral Commission, and was one of the signers of the January 26, 1998, Project for the New American Century (PNAC Letter (http://www.theindyvoice.com/index.blog?entry_id=417960)) to President Bill Clinton.
According to the U.S. Trade Representative web site, Zoellick has completed negotiations to bring China and Taiwan into the World Trade Organization (WTO), has developed a strategy to launch new global trade negotiations at the WTO meeting at Doha, shepherded Congressional action on the Jordan Free Trade Agreement and the Vietnam Trade Agreement, and worked with Congress to pass the Trade Act of 2002, which included new Trade Promotion Authority.[1] (http://www.ustr.gov/Who_We_Are/Bios/Biography_of_Ambassador_Robert_B._Zoellick.html)
"During President Bush's Administration, Bob Zoellick served with Secretary of State James Baker as Under Secretary of State for Economic and Agricultural Affairs, as well as Counselor to the Department (Under Secretary rank). In August 1992, Ambassador Zoellick was appointed White House Deputy Chief of Staff and Assistant to the President."[2] (http://www.results.gov/leadership/bio_474.html)
He served in various positions at the Department of the Treasury from 1985 to 1988, including Counselor to Secretary Baker, Executive Secretary of the Department, and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions Policy. Zoellick was also appointed the President's personal representative, or Sherpa, for the G-7 Economic Summits in 1991 and 1992. After leaving government service, Ambassador Zoellick was appointed an Executive Vice President at Fannie Mae (1993–1997).[3] (http://www.results.gov/leadership/bio_474.html)[4] (http://www.ustdrc.gov/members/zoellick.html)
On January 7, 2005, President George W. Bush nominated Zoellick to be Deputy Secretary of State. [5] (http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/01/20050107-6.html)
Zoellick has served as the John M. Olin Professor of National Security at the U.S. Naval Academy (1997–1998), Research Scholar at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and Senior International Advisor to Goldman Sachs.[6] (http://www.ustr.gov/about-ustr/ambassador/zoellick.html)[7] (http://www.ustdrc.gov/members/zoellick.html)
He also serves or has served as a board member on a number of private and public organizations: Alliance Capital, Said Holdings, and the Precursor Group; a member of the advisory boards of Enron and Viventures, a venture fund; as a Director of the Aspen Institute's Strategy Group, Council on Foreign Relations, the German Marshall Fund of the United States, and the World Wildlife Advisory Council; and a member of Secretary William Sebastian Cohen's Defense Policy Board.[8] (http://www.ustr.gov/about-ustr/ambassador/zoellick.html)[9] (http://www.ustdrc.gov/members/zoellick.html)
Zoellick was raised in Naperville, Illinois. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1975 from Swarthmore College and received his J.D. from the Harvard Law School and a Master of Public Policy degree from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government in 1981.[10] (http://www.results.gov/leadership/bio_474.html)[11] (http://www.ustr.gov/about-ustr/ambassador/zoellick.html)
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