For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
March 2, 2001
Statement by the Press Secretary
National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice announced today the
appointment of Peter F. Allgeier as Special Assistant to the President
and Senior Director for International Economic Affairs, National
Security Council, effective February 12.
Mr. Allgeier has been the Associate U.S. Trade Representative for the
Western Hemisphere since January 1995. He previously served
as Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Europe and the Mediterranean
from 1989 to 1995, and as Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Asia
and the Pacific from 1985 to 1989. Mr. Allgeier joined USTR in June
1980 as an international economist dealing with Asia, serving in 1981
as Director for Japanese Affairs and as Deputy Assistant USTR for Asia
and the Pacific from 1981 to 1985.
Prior to joining USTR, Mr. Allgeier was an international economist with
the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and a Visiting
Instructor of Economics at Duke University.
Mr. Allgeier graduated cum laude from Brown University with an A.B. in
International Relations. He holds a Master's Degree in
International Relations from Johns Hopkins University, School of
Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and a Ph.D. in International
Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill. He was also a Rockefeller Fellow at Harvard Divinity
School. Mr. Allgeier was born in Orange, New
Jersey. He and his wife, Marsha, have two sons, Matthew and
Daniel.
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