Katy Mastman is the Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Labor Affairs. She leads USTR’s Labor Office which handles labor-related trade issues around the globe. Among other responsibilities, Katy serves as a Principal on the Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force and co-chairs the Interagency Labor Affairs Committee under the USMCA. Most recently, Katy served as the Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Labor Affairs, focusing on the USMCA Rapid Response Mechanism and labor issues in Asia. Prior to joining USTR, Katy worked at the U.S. Department of Labor, in the Office of the Solicitor, as the Counsel for International Affairs and USERRA, and later in the International Labor Affairs Bureau, as the Deputy Director of the Office of Trade and Labor Affairs.
Katy holds a J.D. from the NYU School of Law, where she was a Root Tilden Kern Scholar in the Public Interest and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the NYU Review of Law & Social Change. She earned a B.A., with Honors, in Community Health and Political Science from Brown University.
