Steve
Beckman, Assistant Director, Governmental
and International Affairs Department International
Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural
Implement Workers of America (UAW)
Gordon
G. Chang, Author and Attorney - Gordon Chang
just released his first book, The Coming Collapse
of China. Mr. Chang lived and worked in China for
almost two decades, most recently in Shanghai, as
counsel to the American law firm Paul Weiss. His
articles on China have been published in The New
York Times, The Asian Wall Street Journal, The Far
Eastern Economic Review, and The International Herald
Tribune.
Merrit
Todd Cooke Jr. - Terry Cooke assumed his
current position as Chief of the Commercial Section
at the American Institute in Taiwan in August 1999.
Prior to his posting to Taiwan, Cooke served as
Principal Commercial Officer at the U.S. Embassy
in Berlin, as Deputy Senior Commercial Officer at
the U.S. Embassy Tokyo, and as Commercial Officer
in postings at Tokyo and the U.S. Consulate Shanghai.
From 1996 through 1999, Cooke assisted U.S. firms
as they set up shop and made eastern Germany a state-of-the-art
production center for both global semiconductor
and chemical production and as they made breakthroughs
in eastern Germanyís cartelized energy sector.
From 1991 through 1996, Cooke contributed to an
improved U.S.-Japan commercial relationship through
conceiving and organizing "The Strategic Dimension
of U.S.-Japan Corporate Alliances Conference;"
through helping broker elements of President Bush's
and President Clinton's successive auto deals; and
through his role in negotiating an agreeement between
the Government of Japan and the U.S. medical equipment
industry saving U.S. manufacturers $320 million
in proposed health insurance reimbursement cuts.
In 1990, while serving as Commercial Officer in
Shanghai, Cooke received a Superior Honor Award
for service during the Tiananmen Incident .
Cooke received a Ph.D. in 1985 and an M.A. in 1981
in the field of Cultural Anthropology at the University
of California, Berkeley. He graduated Cum Laude
from Princeton University in 1976. Cooke has diplomatic
fluency, in speaking and reading, in Mandarin Chinese,
Japanese, German, French, and limited diplomatic
proficiency in Nepali/Hindi.
Peter
Davidson, General Counsel, U.S. Trade Representative
Gen.
John Douglass (USAF - Ret.) President and
CEO Aerospace Industries Association - Mr. Douglass
became the AIA Chief Executive in 1998. He previously
served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Acquisition
of Defense Systems and on the staff of the Senate
Armed Service Committee under Senator Sam Nunn.
He completed 28 years of U.S. Air Force service
and retired as a brigadier general in 1992.
Edward
Fire, President, Int'l Union of Electrical
Workers-Communications Workers of America (IUE-CWA)
- IUE-CWA represents some 180,000 workers in a number
of industries, including the electronics industry.
More than 40,000 members work for General Electric,
General Motors and Delphi Automotive Systems.
Dwain
Ford, a producer from Kinmumdy, Illinois,
is an American Soybean Association (ASA) Vice President
and member of the ASA Executive Committee. Ford
also serves as Chairman of the ASA Trade Policy
& International Affairs Committee.
Ford served as Chairman of the Trade Policy &
International Affairs Committee in 1999-2000, and
was a member of both the Audit and Trade Policy
& International Affairs Committees in 1998-99.
He was Chairman of the ASA Latin America Subcommittee
in 1998-99, and on the Public Affairs Committee
in 1996. He has also represented ASA as a member
of the ASA/Zeneca Environmental Leadership Group,
the Monsanto Biotech Core Group and the Conservation
Technology Information Center Board of Directors.
Ford joined the Illinois Soybean Association in
1991, having served as Secretary and as President.
He farms an average annual soybean acreage of 700
acres and also produces. corn. He operates a 1000
sow farrow-to-wean swine facility. In addition to
his service with ASA, Ford is on the Marion County
Farm Bureau Board and owns M & D Seed Distributors.
The American Soybean Association is a national not-for-profit,
nonpartisan, volunteer, farmer-controlled commodity
organization with about 28,500 members that works
to strengthen soybeans as an economically and environmentally
sound cropping opportunity in the best interest
of soybean growers and the public. ASA has affiliated
offices in 29 states and international offices in
14 foreign countries.
With a crop value of over $18 billion annually,
the United States is the world leader in soybean
production, representing nearly 50 percent of the
world soybean crop. More than half of the U.S. soybean
crop is exported each year.
The American Soybean Association was founded in
1920.
Leo
W. Gerard, International President, United Steelworkers
of America (USWA); Mr. Gerard was sworn in as the
head of the 700,000 USWA on February 28, 2001, succeeding
George Becker. (PDF
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Robbin
S. Johnson, Corporate Vice President, Public
Affairs, Cargill, Inc. - Cargill is an international
marketer, processor and distributer of agricultural,
food, financial and industrial products and services
with 90,000 employees in 60 countries. In terms
of food/beverage sales, Cargill ranks fourth among
the nationís top food companies behind Philip
Morris, ConAgra, and PepsiCo. Cargill reported revenues
of $48 billion in 2000.
Chuck
Lambert, Ph.D , Chief Economist, National
Cattlemen's Beef Association
Dave
McCurdy, President, Electronics Industries
Alliance (EIA) - McCurdy is a former Member of the
House of Representatives (D-Oklahoma) who served
from 1981 ñ 1995, during which time he held
a number of leadership positions including Chairman
of the House Intelligence Committee. The EIA is
a partnership of electronic and high tech associations
and companies whose membership represents more than
80 percent of the industry. The products and services
encompassed by EIA range from consumer electronic
products to defense systems.
Donald Schruhan,
Assistant Commissioner for International Affairs,
United States Customs Service
Robert
Thayer, Executive Council Member and General
Vice President International Association of Machinists
and Aerospace Workers (IAM) - Mr. Thayer was elected
General Vice President in 1997 and serves as chief
of staff for al the IAM headquarters operations.
He previously served as a member of International
Aerospace Coordinated Bargaining Committee and as
the IAM Overall Coordinator for the Pratt &
Whitney and Hamilton Standards divisions of United
Technologies Corp.
Thomas
Usher, Chairman and CEO, USX Corp. - USX
is a major producer of energy and metal products
whose operations are conducted through Marathon
Oil Company, headquartered in Houston, and U.S.
Steel, located in Pittsburgh. Mr. Usher is Chairman
of the U.S.-Korea Business Council, Vice-Chairman
of the International Iron and Steel Institute and
a director of the U.S.-Japan Business Council.
Henry
Jo Von Tungeln, Chairman, U.S. Wheat Associates
- Henry Jo Von Tungeln, USW Vice Chairman, has been
growing wheat in Oklahoma since his graduation from
high school in 1949, with only a two-year absence
from the farm while he performed his military service.
Active in agricultural organizations at the local,
state, and national levels, Von Tungeln has received
commendations and recognition for his contributions
to Oklahoma agriculture from the Governor and the
legislature, and he was nominated for the Oklahoma
Agriculture Hall of Famein 1998.
Governor Frank Keating appointed Von Tungeln, in
1998, to his third consecutive 5-year term on the
Oklahoma Wheat Commission. Von Tungeln serves as
president of the Canadian County Farm Bureau, a
position he has held for more than 40 years. He
has traveled to Europe, Africa and Latin America
on behalf of America's wheat farmers, promoting
wheat and wheat
trade.
Von Tungeln is married to Donna, and they have two
children and fivegrandchildren.
Charles
W. Winwood, Acting Commissioner United States
Customs Service - Prior to being named Acting Commissioner,
Mr. Winwood was the Deputy Commissioner of Customs.
He was also the Assistant Commissioner, Office of
Field Operations where he was directly responsible
for all trade compliance, passenger, and outbound
operations, field laboratories, and Customs ports
of entry.
