Matthew Jaffe

Acting Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Trade Policy Coordination 
 
Matthew P. Jaffe is the Acting Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Trade Policy Coordination. He has been with USTR since December 2012 and serves as the Chair of the Interagency Trade Policy Staff Committee. He most recently served as Senior Associate General Counsel in USTR’s Office of General Counsel, where he represented the United States in dispute-related matters in the WTO and provided advice on legal aspects related to trade negotiations, implementation of trade agreements, and trade-related legislation.
 
From 1990 to 2012, he practiced international trade and customs law at private law firms, representing clients in trade remedy matters before the U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. International Trade Commission and litigating appeals before the U.S. Court of International Trade and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. From 1983 to 1990, he worked as an attorney advisor in the Office of Chief Counsel for Import Administration at the U.S. Department Commerce and in the Office of Administrative Law Judges at the U.S. International Trade Commission. From 1982 to 1983, he worked at the U.S. Senate Committee on Rules and at the U.S. Senate Select Committee to Study Undercover Activities of Components of the Department of Justice.
 
He holds a joint JD/MBA from the University of Denver and an undergraduate degree in political science and economics from the University of Maryland, College Park