Robert Zoellick

Robert Bruce Zoellick, appointed United States Trade Representative, assumed office on February 7, 2001. He is a member of President George Walker Bush's Cabinet, 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 to President William Jefferson 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.

"During President George Herbert Walker Bush's Administration, Bob Zoellick served with Secretary of State Fannie Mae (1993-1997).

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 of Government at Harvard University, and Senior International Advisor to 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