"Trade Policy At A Crossroads"

STAMFORD, Conn. - Oct. 10, 2013 - PRLog -- The public is invited to attend an Ambassadors’ Roundtable series dinner presentation by Susan Schwab on "Trade Policy at a Crossroads”. This event will take place at the Stamford Yacht Club on November 6, 2013.

Susan C. Schwab is the Former US Trade Representative and is currently a Strategic Advisor in Mayer Brown’s Government & International Trade practice. In addition she is a professor at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, where previously she had served as Dean, and as President of the University System of Maryland Foundation.

Ambassador Schwab has more than three decades of international trade and policy experience. She has held positions as a trade negotiator, Trade Policy Officer at the American Embassy, Chief Economist and Legislative Assistant for International Trade and Legislative Director for Sen. John Danforth (R-Mo), Director General of the US & Foreign Commercial Service at the US Department of Commerce, and senior executive at Motorola Inc. negotiating deals to access the Chinese market.

From 2005-2009 she served as US Trade Representative and Deputy USTR in the George W. Bush administration. During her tenure as the USTR, Ambassador Schwab successfully opened markets for US products and services in every region of the world, and across a variety of business sectors and industries. She concluded the US’s Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) with Peru, Colombia, Panama and South Korea. Ambassador Schwab also helped to achieve congressional approval of Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) with Vietnam, FTAs with Oman and Peru, and the bipartisan “May 10th, 2007 deal” on trade, labor and the environment. She also oversaw implementation of FTAs with 6 Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) countries, Bahrain, Oman and Peru.

In addition, Ms. Schwab also sits on several corporate boards, such as Caterpillar, FedEx and Boeing, as well as on the Advisory Committees of Miller Buckfire and the Signature Theatre of Arlington, VA. Ms. Schwab is a frequent speaker at associations, corporations, and think tanks.

The cost for the dinner and presentation is free for AR series members and $105 for the general public. The event will start at 6:15 P.M. with a cash bar.  Dinner will begin at 7 P.M. and will be followed by the presentation. Reservations and advance payment are required. Space is limited. Please contact the World Affairs Forum at 203-356-0340 or E-mail: info@worldaffairsforum.org to reserve.

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