Geneva Trade Representative

A career technocratic trade negotiator stationed in Geneva who has led multilateral tariff and market‑access talks with roughly 130 countries across a seven‑year span. They craft and defend liberalized tariff schedules, serve as a procedural expert in treaty text, and act as a frequent technical interlocutor for Washington policymakers debating broad trade liberalization. In the current episode they provide the policy backbone invoked by Josh and Toby to justify the Global Free Trade Markets Access Act, reinforcing their role as the institutional memory and policy resource behind multilateral trade deals.