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Donald Eiss

Donald W. Eiss has been a member of WITA since 2000, and currently serves as WITA's Treasurer. He works at Office of the United States Trade Representative; he has been at USTR since 1985. His current responsibilities include supervision of the Executive Branch trade policy coordination system and USTR's liaison with the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the United States Government Accountability Office. Prior to assuming his current responsibilities, Mr. Eiss served as Acting Assistant USTR for Industry, during which time he was responsible, inter alia, for international energy policy. He coordinated the development of initiatives to liberalize trade in energy commodities, energy-related services and equipment in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum, and has also been responsible for investment issues, international high technology concerns and subsidies negotiations in the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations. Prior to joining USTR he worked in the International Trade Administration at the Department of Commerce from 1980 to 1985, the Department of the Treasury from 1977 to 1980 and in the Trade Adjustment Assistance office at the Department of Labor from 1975 to 1977. He is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.