Susan Schwab

Former US Trade Representative

Susan Carol Schwab served as United States Trade Representative from June, 2006 to January, 2009.

She was nominated to replace Rob Portman as United States Trade Representative in April, 2006, becoming Acting Trade Representative upon Portman's confirmation as director of the Office of Management and Budget. Previously, she served as Deputy United States Trade Representative from 2005 to 2006.

Prior to becoming Deputy Trade Representative of the United States, Schwab had served since 2003 as President and CEO of the University System of Maryland Foundation. From 1995 to 2003, she served as Dean of the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she remains on the faculty. Earlier in her career, she served as an aide to then-U.S. Senator John Danforth, as a foreign service officer in the State Department, as a well-respected Director-General of the Foreign and Commercial Service within the U.S. Department of Commerce, and as a business development executive at Motorola.

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The Art of Negotation

Whether women, or men, or both invented it – empathy, even in adversarial relationships, is invariably the wisest approach.

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Susan Schwab