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'''Robert Bruce Zoellick'''was nominated February 10, 2005, by President [[George W. Bush]] to be Deputy Secretary of State vice [[Richard L. Armitage]], who resigned. [http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/02/20050210-11.html] Prior, Zoellick was appointed United States Trade Representative, and assumed office on February 7, 2001. He is As a member of President [[George Walker Bush]]'s Cabinet, he served with the rank of Ambassador. Zoellick is a member of the [[Council on Foreign Relations]], as well as the [[Trilateral Commission]], and was one of the signers of the January 26, 1998, [[Project for the New American Century]] (PNAC) letter to President [[William Jefferson Clinton]].[http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonletter.htm][http://www.ustr.gov/about-ustr/ambassador/zoellick.html]
According to the U.S. Trade Representative web site, Zoellick has completed negotiations to bring China and Taiwan into the [[World Trade Organization]] (WTO), has developed a strategy to launch new global trade negotiations at the WTO meeting at Doha, shepherded Congressional action on the Jordan Free Trade Agreement and the Vietnam Trade Agreement, and worked with Congress to pass the Trade Act of 2002, which included new Trade Promotion Authority.[http://www.ustr.gov/about-ustr/ambassador/zoellick.html]
