page_title: Robert Zoellick
section_title: U.S. Trade Representative (2001–2005)
hierarchical_section_title: Robert Zoellick / Career / U.S. Trade Representative (2001–2005)
caption_attribution_description: English: Official US Government State Department photo of the President of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir
context_page_description: Robert Bruce Zoellick is an American public official and lawyer who was the eleventh president of the World Bank, a position he held from July 1, 2007 to June 30, 2012. He was previously a managing director of Goldman Sachs, United States Deputy Secretary of State and U.S. Trade Representative, from February 7, 2001 until February 22, 2005. Zoellick has been a senior fellow at Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs since ending his term with the World Bank. He is currently a Senior Counselor at Brunswick Group.
context_section_description: Zoellick was named U.S. Trade Representative in Bush's first term; he was a member of the Executive Office, with cabinet rank. According to the U.S. Trade Representative website, Zoellick completed negotiations to bring China and Taiwan into the World Trade Organization (WTO); developed a strategy to launch new global trade negotiations at the WTO meeting in Doha, Qatar; shepherded Congressional action on the Jordan Free Trade Agreement and the Vietnam Trade Agreement; and worked with Congress to pass the Trade Act of 2002, which included new Trade Promotion Authority. "Zoellick is indisputably one of the most successful members of the first Bush cabinet." </ref National Journal 12/4/04> He espoused "competitive liberalization"...and "trade openings at the bilateral, regional, and multilateral levels." At USTR, Zoellick also finalized "free trade deals with Australia, Bahrain, Chile, Morocco, Singapore, and five Central American economies and launched others."</ref> 
  Some groups claimed he promoted the Central American Free Trade Agreement over the objections of labor, environmental, and human rights groups.
  Zoellick played a key role in the U.S.-WTO dispute against the European Union over genetically modified foods. The move sought to require that the European Union comply with international obligations to use science-based methods in continuing its moratorium on the approval of new genetically modified crops within the E.U.
caption: Zoellick and Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, 2005
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