Alan Wm. Wolff
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| 🏳️ Nationality | American |
| 🏫 Education | Juris Doctor |
| 🎓 Alma mater | Columbia Law School, Harvard College |
| 💼 Occupation | Trade Diplomat, International Trade Lawyer, Former Deputy Director-General of the WTO |
| 👩 Spouse(s) | Rev. Hélène N. Wolff |
Alan Wm. Wolff (born June 12, 1942) is an American trade diplomat and international trade lawyer.[1] He represented the United States and U.S. commercial interests in international negotiations over a period of five decades until his appointment as Deputy Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2017[2]. For the six years prior to his appointment, he served as the Chairman of the National Foreign Trade Council.[3]
Career
Wolff served as a senior trade negotiator and advisor for the United States government, having been appointed United States Deputy Special Representative for Trade Negotiations in the USTR under the Carter Administration, General Counsel of the Office under the Ford Administration, and Acting Head of the U.S. Delegation during the Tokyo Round. [4]
After leaving U.S. government service, he founded an international trade practice fully integrating professional economists and forensic investigators of facts with international trade lawyers. He served as counsel to the Labor-Industry Coalition for International Trade, which consisted of the Presidents of the industrial unions of the AFL-CIO and CEOs of major American companies engaged in international trade[5]. He represented the U.S. semiconductor industry on trade matters from its near infancy from February 1980 until accepting appointment to the WTO in 2017.
The articles he contributed to Fortune Magazine (online) and speeches given during his service as WTO Deputy Director General are available on the web at Fortune.com and at WTO.org. He has co-authored several books on international competition and competitiveness. He has lectured and taught at numerous universities and was a Distinguished Research Professor at the Middlebury Institute for International Studies at Monterey, a graduate school of Middlebury College[6]
References
- ↑ "About Ambassador Alan Wolff". American University Washington College of Law. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
- ↑ "WTO | News archive: Deputy Director-General Alan Wm. Wolff". www.wto.org. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
- ↑ "Ambassador Alan Wm. Wolff". U.S. Chamber of Commerce. 2019-04-11. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
- ↑ "About Ambassador Alan Wolff". American University Washington College of Law. Retrieved 2021-10-13.
- ↑ Trade, United States Congress House Committee on Ways and Means Subcommittee on (1980). U.S. Trade Policy: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Trade of the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, Second Session, June 26 and July 21, 1980. U.S. Government Printing Office. Search this book on
- ↑ "Former U.S. Deputy Trade Representative Alan Wolff to Lead Institute's International Trade Policy Initiative | Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey". www.middlebury.edu. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
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