The National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations, U.S.-GCC Corporate Cooperation Committee, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, U.S.-Bahrain Business Council, U.S.-Qatar Business Council, U.S.-Saudi Arabian Business Council, U.S.-U.A.E. Business Council, Bilateral U.S.-Arab Chamber of Commerce, National U.S.-Arab Chamber of Commerce, Arab Bankers Association of North America, and The Ronald Reagan Building & International Trade Center will host a panel discussion entitled:
Trade, Investment, Finance, and the Way Forward: A Conversation on U.S.-GCC Economic Relations with the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative
The event will take place on the morning of Wednesday, April 18th, 2012 in the Pavilion Room of the Ronald Reagan Building & International Trade Center.
Moderator
Dr. John Duke Anthony
Founding President and CEO
National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations
Dr. John Duke Anthony is the founding President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations, and currently serves on the United States Department of State Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy and its subcommittees on Sanctions and Trade and Investment. For the past 38 years he has been a consultant and regular lecturer on the Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf for the Departments of Defense and State. Dr. Anthony has served as an Adjunct Faculty Member at the Department of Defense’s Institute for Security Assistance Management (DISAM) since 1974, and as an Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies since 2006, where he teaches a course on “Politics of the Arabian Peninsula.”
Panelists
Mr. L. Daniel Mullaney
Assistant Trade Representative for Europe and the Middle East,
Office of the U.S. Trade Representative
Mr. L. Daniel Mullaney is Assistant United States Trade Representative for Europe and the Middle East at the Office of the United States Trade Representative. He develops, coordinates, and implements U.S. trade policy toward the European Union and other European trading partners, Eurasia, the Middle East, and northern Africa. From 2006 to 2010, Mr. Mullaney was the Senior Trade Representative in the United States Mission to the European Union in Brussels, Belgium, where he advocated on behalf of U.S. trade interests in the various institutions of the European Union and represented USTR in the broader Brussels trade policy community. Before becoming Senior Trade Representative in Brussels, Mr. Mullaney was an attorney in USTR’s Office of General Counsel, where he led negotiations and provided legal advice for free trade and other agreements and represented the United States in dispute settlement proceedings at the World Trade Organization.
Mr. Jason Buntin
Director for Europe and Middle East Affairs,
Office of the U.S. Trade Representative
Mr. Jason Buntin is Director for Europe and Middle East Affairs at the Office of the United States Trade Representative. In that position he is responsible for coordinating U.S. trade policy related to various countries in the Gulf Cooperation Council, the European Free Trade Area and the Caucuses. Mr. Buntin is responsible for increasing U.S. engagement on trade issues with these countries, including through Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), Trade and Investment Framework Agreements (TIFAs) and other fora. Prior to assuming his current position, Mr. Buntin served at the U.S. Department of Commerce, where he was responsible for monitoring foreign government compliance with the WTO Agreements on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) and Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT).
***The event is closed to press and “off the record.”***
The program is held under the Chatham House Rule: participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed.
If you have any questions you can call the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations at (202) 293-6466.
