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BIOGRAPHY
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GEZA FEKETEKUTY
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Geza Feketekuty is a
distinguished professor at the Monterey Institute of International
Studies, where he developed an innovative new graduate degree program in
Commercial Diplomacy. He
also serves as the Academic Director of
the Ron Brown Center for Politics and Commercial Diplomacy, and
as President of The Institute for Trade & Commercial Diplomacy, a non
profit organization devoted to the development of training materials in
commercial diplomacy. He
writes, lectures and consults on a wide range of trade policy topics,
and provides customized training courses in the area of trade policy and
international trade negotiations. He works closely with various
international organizations such as the OECD, UNCTAD, and the World Bank
in the development and delivery of training courses in trade policy
management and negotiation.
Mr. Feketekuty previously served with the Office of the U.S.
Trade Representative for 21 years in various senior trade policy
leadership positions. He played a central role in the conceptualization
and development of U.S. trade policy and global trade negotiations over
those two decades.
In recent years, Mr. Feketekuty played the key role in developing
U.S. policy positions on a range of new trade issues, including trade
related aspects of competition policies, regulatory reform,
environmental policies and labor standards. From 1992 to 1995 he served
as the chairman of the OECD Trade Committee, which plays a key role in
developing agreements among major developed countries on how to address
new trade issues in multilateral negotiations.
From 1974
to 1979, Mr. Feketekuty coordinated U.S. participation in the Tokyo
Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations and from 1979 to 1985 he was
responsible for planning and developing domestic and international
agreement on the agenda for the Uruguay
Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations.
During the course of the Uruguay Round, he had a major role in
shaping the negotiations on a number of topics, including trade in
services, intellectual property, and agriculture.
He is widely recognized as having played the key role in
establishing policies and launching global negotiation on trade in
services.
He was formerly with the Council of Economic Advisors as Senior
Staff Economist for International Finance and Trade, and with the Office
of Management and Budget as an economist and budget examiner.
He has also been an Instructor in the Economics Department at
Princeton University, a Visiting Professor at Cornell University,
Adjunct Professor at the School of Advanced International Studies of
Johns Hopkins University.
He has written numerous articles and books on trade policy
issues. In 1988, he wrote a
book entitled International Trade in Services: An Overview and
Blueprint for Negotiations, published by Ballinger Publishers in
cooperation with the American Enterprise Institute, and in 1993 the
Group of Thirty published his monogram on The New Trade Agenda, which
analyzes some of the likely post-Uruguay Round issues on the
multilateral trade agenda.
A graduate of Columbia and Princeton Universities in Economics,
Mr. Feketekuty also completed the Advanced Management Program of the
Harvard Business School. He
is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. In
1981, he received the Presidential Meritorious Executive Service Award.
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