Graham, Greenwald named to WTO Appellate Body

Graham, Greenwald named to WTO Appellate Body    The White House on Wednesday nominated Thomas Graham and John Greenwald to serve as members of the World Trade Organization Appellate Body.
   Graham began his career teaching law at the Catholic University in Caracas, Venezuela, on a teaching fellowship from Harvard Law School. He then spent three years in Geneva as a legal officer of the United Nations. He also served as deputy general counsel in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative during a period that laid the foundation for the WTO and its system of dispute-settlement.
   He served in private practice at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, and King & Spalding. Graham is senior counsel at that firm, where he continues to represent respondents in non-U.S. trade remedy cases, to negotiate the settlement of disputes, and to assist in WTO dispute-settlement proceedings.
   Greenwald started in international trade law at the USTR's general counsel's office, where he was responsible for representing the United States in negotiating the Tokyo Round agreements on antidumping, subsidies/countervailing measures, and dispute settlement. Following the negotiations, he represented the White House in drafting the 1979 Trade Agreements Act, which implemented the Tokyo Round Agreements.
   He also served as the first head of the Commerce Department's Import Administration. Since leaving government, Greenwald has served in private practice, representing international trade matters in various foreign jurisdictions, before the WTO and before the trade agencies of the U.S. government and courts. Greenwald has also taught international trade law courses as an adjunct professor at Catholic University, American University and, most recently, Georgetown University, and has written extensively on trade law and policy issues.
   The WTO will next circulate the nominees to the WTO members and they will be interviewed in September or October by a WTO selection committee, which will make its recommendation to the WTO members by Nov. 10. The WTO members will then make the decision to appoint two new Appellate Body members. The four-year terms of the two new members will begin on Dec. 11.