David F. Bisbee is the Assistant United States Trade Representative for Europe and the Middle East. Mr. Bisbee joined the Office of the United States Trade Representative in 2006 and has held a variety of roles within the agency in both Washington, D.C. and Geneva, Switzerland. Most recently, Mr. Bisbee served as the Assistant U.S. Trade Representative and Deputy Chief of Mission in Geneva from 2019 to 2026, where he represented the United States as Deputy Permanent Representative to the World Trade Organization (WTO).
As Deputy Chief of Mission, Mr. Bisbee was responsible for managing USTR’s Geneva office and for coordinating U.S. engagement across the WTO’s Committee structures and negotiating bodies. Previously, Mr. Bisbee served as a delegate in USTR’s Geneva office, covering a wide range of portfolios including services and digital trade, technical barriers to trade, trade facilitation, government procurement, and regional trade agreements.
Prior to relocating to Geneva, Mr. Bisbee served in USTR’s Southeast Asia and Pacific Office as Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative. In the Southeast Asia and Pacific office, Mr. Bisbee worked extensively on modernizing trade relations with Vietnam, Mainland Southeast Asia, and monitoring implementation of the U.S-Australia and U.S.-Singapore Free Trade Agreements.
Prior to joining the U.S. Trade Representative’s Office, Mr. Bisbee served in the Office of the Pacific Basin at the U.S. Department of Commerce working to improve U.S. trade relations with maritime Southeast Asia. Before joining the U.S. Government in 2001, Mr. Bisbee also held several positions in the World Bank in the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Sector Unit for the East Asia and the Pacific Region.
Mr. Bisbee received a Master of Arts Degree from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and a Bachelor in Science Degree in Finance from The American University in Washington, D.C. He also studied at the Institute of Linguistics in Hanoi, Viet Nam.
