Patrick Mulloy has served four two-year terms as a commissioner and was reappointed in 2009 by Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid for a new two-year term expiring December 31, 2011.
Commissioner Mulloy served as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Market Access and Compliance in the Department’s International Trade Administration during the second Clinton Administration. As Assistant Secretary, Commissioner Mulloy directed a trade policy unit of over two hundred international trade specialists, which focused worldwide on removing foreign barriers to U.S. exports and on ensuring that foreign countries complied with trade agreements negotiated with the United States. This activity involved discussions both in the World Trade Organization and with individual governments. Commissioner Mulloy traveled extensively, meeting with foreign leaders to advance market-opening programs in the European Union, China, India, Taiwan, Indonesia, Canada, and Central and South America. He was also appointed by President Clinton to serve as a member of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe.
Before becoming Assistant Secretary, Commissioner Mulloy held various senior positions on the staff of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, including Chief International Counsel and General Counsel. In those positions, he contributed to much of the international trade and finance legislation formulated by the Committee; such as the Foreign Bank Supervision Enhancement Act of 1991, the Export Enhancement Act of 1992, the Defense Production Act Amendments of 1994, and titles of the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act Amendments of 1988 which dealt with foreign bribery, investment, exchange rates, and export controls.
Prior to his work in the Senate, Commissioner Mulloy was a senior attorney in the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice where he directed a staff of lawyers and economists, who supervised participation of U.S. oil companies in the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA). In earlier duties at the Justice Department, he represented the United States in a variety of cases related to Federal environmental laws, including criminal and civil enforcement actions in various U.S. District Courts, several Circuit Courts of Appeal, and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Commissioner Mulloy began his public service career as a Foreign Service Officer where he served in the Department of State’s Office of United Nations Political Affairs, the Office of International Environmental and Oceans Affairs, and as Vice Counsel in the U.S. Consulate in Montreal, Canada.
Today, Commissioner Mulloy is a consultant to the President Emeritus of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and is an Adjunct Professor of International Trade Law at the law schools of Catholic University and George Mason University. He is a member of the Asia Society and the Washington International Trade Association and serves on the Advisory Board of the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress. He has several times testified on international trade and investment matters before committees of the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives.
Commissioner Mulloy, a native of Kingston, Pennsylvania, holds an LL.M. from Harvard University Law School, a Juris Doctorate from the George Washington University Law School, a Master of Arts from the University of Notre Dame, and a Bachelor of Arts from King’s College. Commissioner Mulloy is a member of the District of Columbia and Pennsylvania Bars. He resides in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife Marjorie, and they have three adult children.