Susan C Schwab Has Joined Mayer Brown
01 November 2012
Former United States Trade Representative (USTR) Susan C Schwab has joined Mayer Brown’s Washington, DC, office as a strategic advisor. In a position created expressly for her, Schwab will work across practice groups and offices to counsel the firm’s clients on a wide range of issues and policies. She is the second former USTR to join the firm, following Mickey Kantor, a partner at the firm since 1997 who served in the Clinton Administration.
Schwab’s advisory role for Mayer Brown will be in addition to her professorship at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, where previously she had served as Dean and as President of the University System of Maryland Foundation.
During her tenure as the USTR, Schwab helped negotiate the US’s bilateral Free Trade Agreements with Oman, Peru, Colombia, Panama and South Korea, and helped to achieve Congressional approval of Permanent Normal Trade Relations with Vietnam. Additionally, she negotiated in the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Doha Round with economic powers including the European Union, China, India, and Brazil.
