Peter Allgeier

Peter F. Allgeier is the President of C&M International, Ltd., an affiliate of Crowell and Moring LLP, a law firm with offices in Washington, D.C., California, New York, Brussels, and London.^[1] Previously, he served as Deputy U.S. Trade Representative, from May 2001 until August 2009.^[2] During that period, he also served twice as Acting U.S. Trade Representative, during two transitions, in 2005 and in 2009. In 2005 he was appointed United States Ambassador to the World Trade Organization, in Geneva.

He was born in Orange, New Jersey and is married to Marsha Uehara of Honolulu, Hawaii. They have two sons and currently live in Falls Church, Virginia.

He graduated cum laude from Brown University with an A.B in international relations and earned a Masters Degree in international relations from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He received a PhD in Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also was a Visiting Instructor at Duke University and a Rockefeller Fellow at Harvard Divinity School.

He joined the U.S. Trade Representative in June, 1980, as an international economist dealing with Asia, serving in 1981 as Director for Japanese Affairs. Between 1981 and 1985 he was Deputy Assistant Trade Representative for Asia and the Pacific . In 1985 he became Assistant Trade Representative for Asia and the Pacific. In 1989 he became Assistant Trade Representative for Europe and the Mediterranean. In 1995 he was appointed Associate U.S Trade Representative for the Western Hemisphere by USTR Mickey Kantor.

He has conducted major trade negotiations with countries throughout Asia, Europe (including the former Soviet Union), the Middle East, Canada, Latin America, and the Caribbean, and in multilateral organizations, including the UN, WTO, and OECD.^[3]

He was nominated by President George W. Bush as Deputy U.S.Trade Representative and confirmed by the United States Senate on May 26, 2001.

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