Shaun Donnelly became the Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Europe and the Middle East at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) in mid-August 2005. In this position, he is responsible for developing and implementing U.S. trade policy toward Europe (including the European Union), Eurasia, and the Middle East.

Mr. Donnelly came to this leadership position at USTR from a thirty-three year career as a Foreign Service Officer at the U.S. Department of State, concentrating on economic and trade issues. Immediately before joining USTR, Mr. Donnelly served for four and a half years as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the State Department’s Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs, the number three economic policy job at the Department of State. He has also served as U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives, as Deputy Ambassador in U.S. embassies in Tunisia and Mali, and as an Economic-Commercial officer in our embassies in Egypt, Ethiopia, and Senegal. He has led the Department of State’s Offices of European Union Affairs and Development Finance and served eight years in Deputy Assistant Secretary-level positions.

Shaun Donnelly is a native of Culver, Indiana. He earned a B.A. degree in economics from Lawrence University and an M.A. degree in economics from Northwestern University. Mr. Donnelly served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Tunis, Tunisia. He is married and has two teenage sons.