Michael Froman

Michael Froman
17th United States Trade Representative
In office June 21, 2013 – January 20, 2017
President	Barack Obama
Deputy	Miriam Sapiro Robert Holleyman
Preceded by	Miriam Sapiro (Acting)
Succeeded by	Robert Lighthizer (Nominee)
Personal details
Born	(1962-08-20) August 20, 1962 (age 54) San Rafael, California, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Spouse(s)	Nancy Goodman
Children	3
Education	Princeton University (BA) St Antony's College, Oxford (MA, PhD) Harvard University (JD)

Michael B. Froman (born August 20, 1962) is an American lawyer who has served as the U.S. Trade Representative since 2013. He has been Assistant to the President of the United States and Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economic Affairs, a position held jointly at the National Security Council and the National Economic Council. In that position he served as the United States sherpa to the G7, G8, and G20 summits of economic powers. On May 2, 2013 President Barack Obama nominated him to succeed Ambassador Ron Kirk as the U.S. Trade Representative. He was confirmed on June 19, 2013.

Froman grew up in a Jewish family in San Rafael and graduated from the Branson School. As a teen, Froman was active in B'nai B'rith Youth Organization serving as the 56th International President in 1980 and spoke at the BBYO International Convention in Washington, D.C. in February 2013. Froman received an A.B. in Public and International Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University with a senior thesis entitled Negotiating from Strength: The Principle of Power in US-Soviet Arms Control in 1985, a DPhil in International Relations entitled The development of the idea of detente in American political discourse, 1952-1985, supervised by Sir Michael Howard, from St Antony's College, Oxford in 1988 and a J.D. from Harvard Law School where he was a classmate of Barack Obama, and also where he was an associate of Obama's on the Harvard Law Review.

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