Darci Vetter

Ambassador
Darci Vetter
Chief Agricultural Negotiator for the U.S. Trade Representative
In office
July 9, 2014 – January 20, 2017
President Barack Obama
Preceded by Islam A. Siddiqui
Succeeded by Gregg Doud

Darci Vetter served as the Chief Agricultural Negotiator for the U.S. Trade Representative. In July 2017, she was named diplomat in residence at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. In this role, Vetter worked with leaders from the university's College of Law, College of Business and Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources to launch the Clayton K. Yeutter Institute of International Trade and Finance. Prior to this she served as Deputy Under Secretary of Agriculture for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services, a position she held from 2010 to 2014. According to her official biography,

From 2007 to 2010, she was an International Trade Advisor on the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance. Prior to working in the Senate, Ms. Vetter held numerous roles at the Office of the United States Trade Representative, including Director for Agricultural Affairs from 2005 to 2007 and Director for Sustainable Development from 2001 to 2005. Prior to that, she was Special Assistant to the Under Secretary for Management at the U.S. Department of State from 2000 to 2001. Ms. Vetter received a B.A. from Drake University and an M.P.A. and Certificate in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.[1][2]

According to her USDA official biographic sketch, Ms. Vetter "... grew up in Nebraska on a family farm."[3]

On December 17, 2013, President Barack Obama nominated her to be Chief Agricultural Negotiator, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative,[1] and the Senate confirmed her for that position by a voice vote on July 9, 2014.

References

  1. 1 2 "President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts" (Press release). Washington, D.C.: The Whitehouse. December 17, 2013. Retrieved December 17, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Vetter and Adams nominations confirmed by voice vote". United States Senate Democrats. July 9, 2014. Retrieved December 17, 2015.
  3. ↑ "USDA Biographies, Darci Vetter, Deputy Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services". Archived from the original on March 9, 2013.


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