Ambassador Miriam Sapiro, Deputy USTR

Ambassador Miriam Sapiro serves as Deputy U.S. Trade Representative, responsible for trade negotiations with Europe, the Middle East and the Americas. She also supervises intergovernmental affairs, market access, services and investment, intellectual property and innovation, and the Washington, DC-based Office of WTO and Multilateral Affairs.

Ms. Sapiro most recently served as the founder and President of Summit Strategies International, a consulting firm specializing in internet and telecommunications policy issues. Before that she was an executive in the technology sector. She has also served as Chairman of the Coalition of Service Industries' China E-Commerce Committee and on the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law.

In 1999, Ms. Sapiro was appointed as Special Assistant to President Clinton and Counselor for Southeast European Stabilization and Reconstruction. In this capacity, she worked with USTR, other federal agencies and foreign governments to stabilize the region. Prior to this appointment, she served as Director of European Affairs at the National Security Council, developing and coordinating economic and security policies. Previously, she was a member of the Secretary of State's Policy Planning Staff and worked in the Office of Legal Adviser.

Ambassador Sapiro earned her J.D. from New York University School of Law, where she was an editor of the Law Review, and her B.A. from Williams College, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She was a Rotary Fellow at St. Antony's College, Oxford University, and has taught international law as an Adjunct Professor at New York University School of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, and Columbia University.