"The Trade Agenda of the Next Administration," Ambassador Richard Fisher

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Belfer Center Directors' Seminar "The Trade Agenda of the Next Administration," with Ambassador Richard W. Fisher, deputy U.S. Trade Representative.

Ambassador Fisher has primary responsibility in his position as Deputy US Trade Representative for Asia, Latin America and Canada. His background includes extensive experience in private business where he served as Managing Partner for two securities trading firms; education where he taught graduate courses at the University of Texas at Austin, and has served in Board and other advisory positions within a number of institutions; government where he served in the Treasury Department under Carter; and politics where he was Texas' Democratic Senate nominee in 1994. Ambassador Fisher was also a member of the team that negotiated the Claims and Asset Settlement between the US and the People's Repbulic of China in 1979, which paved the way for normalization of trade relationships between the two countries.