USTR - Key Persons

Member of the Labor Advisory Committee
International President, the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union ( BCTGM )

Azzedine Downes

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Member of the Trade and Environment Policy Advisory Committee
International Fund for Animal Welfare

Baldemar Velasquez

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Member of the Labor Advisory Committee
President, Farm Labor Organizing Committee ( FLOC )

Brian Bryant

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Member of the Labor Advisory Committee
International President, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers ( IAM )

With more than two decades of U.S. trade policy expertise and negotiating experience across a wide range of multilateral, regional and bilateral trade issues, Cara Morrow has spent nearly the entirety of her career in U.S. federal government service, beginning as an intern in USTR's Office of Europe and the Middle East in the summer of 2001. After formally beginning her career at Commerce's International Trade Administration (ITA), she joined the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), serving in various roles over 14 years, including Director for Tariff Affairs, Director for Regional Trade Agreements, Deputy Assistant USTR for WTO and Multilateral Affairs, and Acting Assistant USTR for WTO and Multilateral Affairs, and represented the United States at the WTO, OECD and G20. Cara was appointed by the Biden-Harris Administration as Director of Policy at ITA in January 2021, where she successfully negotiated three international steel and aluminum agreements that protected U.S. national security, ensured the continued existence of America's steel and aluminum industries, and eliminated more than one billion dollars per year in retaliatory tariffs against iconic American brands including Jack Daniels and Harley Davidson. Ms. Morrow grew up in public service as part of a U.S. Air Force fighter pilot family, moving eight times to different U.S. states and countries before graduating high school. She received her B.A. in International Relations from the University of California at Davis and a Master's Degree in Commercial Diplomacy from the Monterey Institute of International Studies. Ms. Morrow is married with two sons and lives in Arlington, Virginia.

Carol Colombo

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Member of the Intergovernmental Policy Advisory Committee

Cecil E. Roberts

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Member of the Labor Advisory Committee
President, United Mine Workers of America ( UMWA )

Cindy Squires

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Member of the Trade and Environment Policy Advisory Committee

Cynthia Whittenburg

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Associate Director at the National Customs Brokers and Forwarders Association of America ( NCBFAA ) Educational Institute

Daphnee Sainvil

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Member of the Intergovernmental Policy Advisory Committee
Division Manager, Government Affairs and Economic Development, City of Fort Lauderdale, Florida

David Bisbee

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AUSTR & Deputy Chief of Mission, Geneva

David Heindel

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Member of the Labor Advisory Committee
Secretary - Treasurer, Seafarers International Union ( SIU )

David McCall

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Member of the Labor Advisory Committee
International President, United Steelworkers ( USW )

Doug McKalip

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Chief Agricultural Negotiator

Dr. James Collard

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Member of the Intergovernmental Policy Advisory Committee
Director of Planning and Economic Development, Citizen Potawatomi Nation

Ed Gresser

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Vice President and Director for Trade and Global Markets at PPI

Eliot Pence

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Senior Director Africa Practice, McLarty Associates

Elizabeth Baltzan

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Representative
Senior Advisor
Senior Advisor to the U.S. Trade Representative

Beth Baltzan serves as a Senior Advisor to the U.S. Trade Representative. Ms. Baltzan previously served as an attorney at USTR from 2003 to 2009. In 2009, Ms. Baltzan joined the Office of International Affairs at the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, working on oversight in the wake of the financial crisis. In 2012, the PCAOB detailed Ms. Baltzan to the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, where she investigated banking practices. Ms. Baltzan then served as Democratic Trade Counsel for the House Ways and Means Committee from 2012 to 2016. After returning to USTR to work on litigation matters, in 2017 Ms. Baltzan formed her own trade consultancy practice. She was also a fellow at the Open Markets Institute. Ms. Baltzan received her J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center. She received her Bachelor of Arts in International Relations, with honors, from Stanford University.

Elizabeth Shuler

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Member of the Labor Advisory Committee
AFL - CIO, President
Member of Advisory Committee for Trade Policy
President, American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Organizations ( AFL - CIO )

Emily Desai

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Member of the Intergovernmental Policy Advisory Committee
Deputy Director of International Affairs and Trade, California Governor 's Office of Business and Economic Development

Eric Esoda

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Member of the Intergovernmental Policy Advisory Committee
President and CEO, Northeastern Pennsylvania Industrial Resource Center

Erica Fuchs

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Carnegie Mellon University, Professor, Engineering and Public Policy
Member of Advisory Committee for Trade Policy

Eugene Seroka

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Member of the Intergovernmental Policy Advisory Committee
Executive Director, the Port of Los Angeles

Fran Drescher

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Member of the Labor Advisory Committee
President, Screen Actors Guild - American Federation of Television and Radio Artists ( SAG - AFTRA )

Fred Redmond

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Member of the Labor Advisory Committee
Secretary - Treasurer, American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Organizations ( AFL - CIO )

Frederic Rolando

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Member of the Labor Advisory Committee
President, National Association of Letter Carriers ( NALC )

George Slover

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Member of the Trade and Environment Policy Advisory Committee
Consumer 's Union

Glenn Prickett

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Member of the Trade and Environment Policy Advisory Committee
Member of Committee

Greg Regan

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Member of the Labor Advisory Committee
President, Transportation Trades Department, ( TTD ) AFL - CIO

Ike Nwabuonwu

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Chairman and CEO, Alpha Energy and Electric, Inc

Jake Colvin

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Member of the Trade and Environment Policy Advisory Committee
Global Innovation Forum

James Salzman

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Member of the Trade and Environment Policy Advisory Committee
Member of Committee

James Tripp

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Member of the Trade and Environment Policy Advisory Committee
Environmental Defense Fund

Jamila Thompson

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Acting Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor

Javier Saade

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Impact Master Holdings, Founder and Managing Partner
Member of Advisory Committee for Trade Policy

Jeffrey Krilla

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Vice President for Global Public Policy and Government Affairs, Kosmos Energy

Jennifer Dorning

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Member of the Labor Advisory Committee
President, Department for Professional Employees, AFL - CIO ( DPE )

Jerry Block

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Member of the Trade and Environment Policy Advisory Committee

Joe DePete

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President, Air Line Pilots Association ( ALPA )

Joe Lonardo

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Member of the Trade and Environment Policy Advisory Committee

Jon Jukuri

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Member of the Intergovernmental Policy Advisory Committee
Senior Director for State - Federal Relations, National Conference of State Legislators ( NCSL )

Juan A. Millán

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Acting General Counsel
Acting General Counsel for the Office of the United States Trade

Juan A. Millán is the acting General Counsel for the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR). He most recently served as the Deputy General Counsel for Monitoring and Enforcement for USTR. From 2005 to 2012, he was Legal Advisor and Senior Legal Advisor at the U.S. Mission to the WTO in Geneva, Switzerland, participating in all U.S. disputes and disputes-related matters in the WTO during that period and representing the United States in the WTO Dispute Settlement Body. Before moving to Geneva, he served as an attorney in Office of General Counsel at USTR, with a focus on domestic and export subsidies, agriculture, and SPS (human, animal, or plant life or health) issues. Previously, he worked at a Washington, D.C., law firm. He holds a law degree from Yale Law School and an undergraduate degree in politics from Princeton University.

Julia Brossart

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Member of the Intergovernmental Policy Advisory Committee
CEO and Executive Director, National Lieutenant Governors Association ( NLGA )

Katherine Tai

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Ambassador

Katie Hendrickson

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Deputy Chief of Staff

Katrin Kuhlmann

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President and Founder, New Markets Lab

Kendal Tyre

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Partner, Nixon Peabody

Kenneth Cooper

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Member of the Labor Advisory Committee
International President, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers ( IBEW )

Kerman Maddox

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Dakota Communications, Managing Partner
Member of Advisory Committee for Trade Policy

Kitty Block

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Member of the Trade and Environment Policy Advisory Committee

Laurence Reszetar

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Member of the Intergovernmental Policy Advisory Committee
Director of International Business Strategy, Minnesota Trade Office

Lee Saunders

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Member of the Labor Advisory Committee
President, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees ( AFSCME )

Lisa Jacobson

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Member of the Trade and Environment Policy Advisory Committee
Business Council for Sustainable Energy

Manish Bapna

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Member of Advisory Committee for Trade Policy
Natural Resources Defense Council ( NRDC ), President and CEO

Marc Perrone

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Member of the Labor Advisory Committee
International President, United Food and Commercial Workers International Union ( UFCW )

Maria Pagan

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Deputy USTR and Chief of Mission Geneva

Marlon Kimpson

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Member of Advisory Committee for Trade Policy

Mary Kay Henry

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Member of the Labor Advisory Committee
International President, Service Employees International Union ( SEIU )

Marysue Shore

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President, Global Business Strategies / Ambassador John Simon / Founding Partner, Total Impact Investors

Matthew Biggs

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Member of the Labor Advisory Committee
President, International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers ( IFPTE )

Mike Matson

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Member of the Intergovernmental Policy Advisory Committee
Mayor of Davenport, Iowa

Nina Szlosberg-Landis

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North Carolina League of Conservation Voters, Board Member

Norine Kennedy

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Member of the Trade and Environment Policy Advisory Committee
U.S. Council for International Business

O. Felix Obi

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Adjunct Professor of Economics: Global Trade & Political Economy, the City University of New York

Paul Sullivan

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Senior Vice President - International, Acrow Bridge

Rachel Howe

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Director

Rahama Wright

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Founder and CEO of Shea Yaleen

Randi Weingarten

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Member of the Labor Advisory Committee
President, American Federation of Teachers ( AFT )

Ray Hair

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Member of the Labor Advisory Committee
International President, American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada ( AFM ), AFL - CIO / CLC