Career
Ambassador to the EU; Deputy Treasury Secretary; Under Secretary of State; Under Secretary of Commerce: and Special Adviser to the President on Holocaust-Era Issues (1993-2001); Chief White House Domestic Policy Adviser to President Carter (1977-81). During the Clinton Administration, he negotiated the New Transatlantic Agenda and the Transatlantic Business Dialogue; agreements with EU regarding Helms-Burton Act and Iran-Libya Sanctions Act; Japan Port Agreement; Kyoto Climate Change Protocol; special adviser to the State Department on Holocaust-Era Issues in Obama and Trump administrations (2009-current); nine honorary PhDs; awards from France (Legion of Honor), Germany, Austria, Belgium, Israel, and US. Legal Times "Best International Trade Lawyer" (2007); book author, most recently President Carter: The White House years, and frequent oped writer in leading papers.