Tuesday, March 29th, 2011...9:57 am
Former USTR General Council Warren Maruyama to speak Friday, April 1 from 5-6:30pm
MIIS Global Trade, Innovation, and Development Policy Initiative
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Speaker Biography: From 2007 to 2009, Warren served as General Counsel of the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR). During this period, USTR launched 10 WTO and bilateral enforcement actions challenging foreign trade barriers, including major WTO challenges involving China and the European Union, and successfully resolved 95 percent of its offensive WTO cases. As Acting Deputy U.S. Trade Representative for China in 2008, Warren coordinated USTR’s role in the U.S.-China Strategic Economic Dialogue (SED) and helped lead the U.S.-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade (JCCT).
Warren was a partner in Hogan and Hartson’s International Trade Group from 1993 to 2006. He served as Associate Director and Deputy Associate Director of the White House Office of Policy Development from 1989-1992, helping develop the Bush Administration’s major trade policy initiatives, including Super 301, NAFTA, Uruguay Round, Steel Trade Liberalization, and Enterprise for the Americas. He was an Associate General Counsel at USTR from 1983-1989. His first job in government was as an Attorney-Advisor at the U.S. International Trade Commission.