Mark Sloan

Mark Sloan is a Partner at DTB Associates in Washington, DC, where he specialized in market access analysis related to both the WTO agricultural negotiations and U.S. Free Trade Agreement negotiations. Mr. Sloan has provided advice to the U.S. pork, grain, rice, almond and potato industries, as well as several private companies. Previously, he served as Director of Agricultural Affairs to the Office of the United States Trade Representative, where he was involved in a wide variety of agricultural trade issues. This included managing USTR work on bilateral issues with the European Union, such as the hormone dispute and negotiations on changes in the EU's WTO commitments with respect to grain. Mr. Sloan also represented USTR in work on the U.S. Section 201 safeguard actions with respect to wheat gluten and lamb, in formal WTO dispute settlement discussions with Korea, Canada and Venezuela on agricultural trade issues, as well as a large number of other bilateral trade issues. He played a key role at USTR in the development of a U.S. position on disciplines on agricultural export credits as part of the WTO agricultural negotiations. Mr. Sloan also served in a variety of positions with the USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS), including Deputy Director of Multilateral Trade Division and Deputy Director of the Western Europe and Americas Division in International Trade Policy. (This is me - Update Profile)