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He is also ==Other Affiliations==*Director Emeriti of , The [[European Institute]].*Main architect of [[CAFTA]]*A founder of the [[Business Humanitarian Forum]]*Member, [[Inter-American Dialogue]]
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'''Robert Bruce Zoellick''' is "an executive at [[Goldman Sachs Group Inc.]], where Treasury Secretary [[Henry Paulson]], who will recommend candidates for the [[World Bank]] job to President [[George W. Bush]], was chairman until June [1996]." [http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=agAylsBShx_M&refer=home] "The German government has told the [[Bush administration]] that it would support" Zoellick's nomination to head the World Bank. Zoellick "would serve a five-year term, subject to the approval of the bank's board", to replace [[Paul Wolfowitz]], whose resignation is effective June 30, 2007. [http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=agAylsBShx_M&refer=home] 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. As a member 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]
Zoellick was raised in Naperville, IL. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1975 from Swarthmore College and received his J.D. from the Harvard Law School and a Master of Public Policy degree from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government in 1981.[http://www.results.gov/leadership/bio_474.html][http://www.ustr.gov/about-ustr/ambassador/zoellick.html]
== External Resources Links ==*Kevin Watkins, [http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-7-30-860.jsp "Trade hypocrisy: the problem with Robert Zoellick,"] ''Open Democracy'', December 20, 2002.*[http://www.ustr.gov/about-ustr/ambassador/zoellick.html Official U.S. Trade Representative Bio of Robert Zoellick].*Toni Solo, [http://www.counterpunch.org/solo11082003.html "Robert Zoellick and 'Wise Blood'. The Hazel Motes Approach to International Trade,"] ''CounterPunch'', November 8, 2003.
*Tom Barry, [http://www.counterpunch.org/barry01142005.html Robert Zoellick: a Bush Family Man], ''CounterPunch'', January 14, 2005. Overview of Zoellick and compared to the [[neocons]].
*Andreas Cremer, [http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=agAylsBShx_M&refer=home "Zoellick Wins German Support to Be World Bank Head (Update1),"] Bloomberg News, May 29, 2007.
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