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Director
WTO Legal Affairs Division
Bruce Wilson assumed the post of Director of the Legal
Affairs Division of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Secretariat in
Geneva, Switzerland on 16 September 2002. In this post, he serves
as the principal legal officer of the organization, a post in which
he spends much of his time on WTO dispute settlement matters. Prior
to taking up this position, he held a number of different trade policy
positions in the U.S. Government at the Office of the United States Trade
Representative and the Committee on Ways and Means of the U.S. House of
Representatives. Upon retirement from the U.S. Government in early 1998,
he practiced international trade and international public policy law
for a major U.S. law firm until joining the Secretariat. Mr Wilson holds
a B.A. in history from Stanford University (1970), an M.A. in international
relations (with a specialization in international economics) from Johns
Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (1972), and an M.B.A.
(with a specialization in finance) (1979) and a J.D.(1986) from George
Washington University. He is a member of the bars of Virginia and the
District of Columbia in the United States.