AmCham Special Luncheon

With long-awaited action on pending U.S. free trade agreements with South Korea, Panama and Colombia on the horizon, it's uncertain what, if anything comes next for the U.S. trade agenda. Can nine countries make enough progress on critical issues to ensure that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations fill the vacuum? Will WTO members come together by December 2011 to ensure Doha does not end in utter failure? And in 2012, as Taiwan's election leading straight into U.S. elections, how can we reinvigorate the U.S.-Taiwan trade agenda?

AmCham is honored to invite former U.S. Ambassador to the WTO and Deputy US Trade Representative, Mr. Peter Allgeier, to give a speech for this important update on the View from Washington.

About the Speaker

Peter Allgeier joined C&M International, Ltd. (CMI) as President in September 2009 after nearly three decades at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), where he was a negotiator on nearly every major U.S. trade initiative since the Carter Administration. C&M International is the international trade and investment consulting firm affiliated with Crowell & Moring LLP.

From 2001-2009, Ambassador Allgeier served as Deputy USTR. Prior to that, he was the U.S. Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva, Switzerland from October 2005 until August 2009.

During his career at USTR, Mr. Allgeier has conducted major negotiations with countries throughout Asia, Europe (including the former Soviet Union), the Middle East, and Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as multilateral negotiations in the United Nations, the World Trade Organization (WTO), and its predecessor organization, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). These negotiations have included: free trade agreements, elimination/reduction of foreign tariffs and non-tariff barriers on U.S. goods and services; bilateral investment treaties; improvements in foreign laws governing patents, trademarks and copyrights; government procurement; removal of foreign export subsidies; and treaties normalizing U.S. trade and investment relations with the countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

Mr. Allgeier graduated cum laude from Brown University, with an A.B. in international relations. He earned a Masters Degree in international relations from Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He has a Ph.D. in international economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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