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Rufus Yerxa is an American lawyer and former diplomat who served as the President of the National Foreign Trade Council from 1997 to 2017. He was born in 1951 in Washington, D.C. and graduated from Harvard Law School in 1976. Yerxa has held a number of positions in the U.S. government, including Deputy U.S. Trade Representative from 1993 to 1997, and Chief Negotiator for the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) from 1989 to 1993. He also served as a member of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) from 1985 to 1989. Yerxa is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Law Institute. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Foreign Trade Council, and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Yerxa has an estimated net worth of $10 million.

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2016

On March 9, 2016, the National Foreign Trade Council (NFTC)'s board of directors announced Yerxa would serve as the organization's new president effective May 9, 2016, succeeding Bill Reinsch.

2002

In 2002 he was appointed to serve as Deputy Director General of the WTO, a position he held until 2013. During this time he was also a lecturer on U.S. trade policy at the World Trade Institute (WTI) in Berne. After retiring from the WTO he joined the faculty of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies (MIIS) in Monterey, California as a visiting professor.

1989

From 1989 to 1995 he was a Deputy United States Trade Representative (USTR), serving first in Geneva as U.S. ambassador to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), and subsequently as Deputy USTR in Washington. He played a key role in the Uruguay Round Negotiations, and was later responsible for overseeing the Clinton Administration's efforts to obtain Congressional approval of both NAFTA and the WTO Agreement. After leaving government service In the mid-1990s, he was a resident partner in the Brussels office of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, where his practice focused on international trade and European regulatory matters.

1977

From 1977-81 he was legal advisor to the chairman of the International Trade Commission. From 1981-89 he was a staff member of the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee, serving as staff director of its Subcommittee on Trade and later as Assistant Chief Counsel of the full Committee.

1951

Rufus Hawkins Yerxa (born 1951) is an American lawyer and former U.S. government and international official. He is currently President of the National Foreign Trade Council. He served as Deputy United States Trade Representative during the George H.W. Bush and Clinton Administrations, and served for 11 years as Deputy Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO).