>> I went to Pomona College, class of 1991, and I was an economics major.
Go econ. Great department, and then I went straight into graduate school
at Georgetown University and received a Master of Science in Foreign Service with a focus
on International Finance and Trade.
I wanted to be a trade negotiator when I came out of graduate school, and I did that.
I interned at the U.S. Trade Representative's Office and then got my first formal employment
with the U.S. Government at the Department of Commerce, and pretty much went straight
into trade negotiations on the North American Free Trade Agreement.
What we then called the Free-Trade Area of The Americas,
which was going to be a Western Hemisphere free trade agreement that has not come into fruition,
and also did some work on the World Trade Organization out in Geneva.