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Michael B.G. Froman is deputy assistant to the president and

deputy national security adviser for international economic affairs, a

position to be held jointly at the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/United_States_National_Security_Council" title="United States National Security Council">National Security Council</a> and the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Economic_Council" title="National Economic Council">National Economic Council</a>. His responsibilities will include serving as the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=White_House&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="White House (page does not exist)">White House</a> liaison to the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=G7&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="G7 (page does not exist)">G7</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/G8" title="G8">G8</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=G20_major_economies&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="G20 major economies (page does not exist)">G20</a> summits of economic powers.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Michael_B.G._Froman#cite_note-HLN0127-1">[1]</a>

<h2>Contents</h2>

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<ul><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Michael_B.G.Froman#Background">1 Background</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Michael_B.G.Froman#Resources_and_articles">2 Resources and articles</a>

<ul><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Michael_B.G.Froman#Related_Sourcewatch_articles">2.1 Related Sourcewatch articles</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Michael_B.G.Froman#References">2.2 References</a></li></ul>

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<h2>Background</h2>

Froman was previously the President and CEO of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=CitiInsurance&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="CitiInsurance (page does not exist)">CitiInsurance</a>, A Member of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Citigroup" title="Citigroup">Citigroup</a> and a "Senior Fellow at the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Council_on_Foreign_Relations" title="Council on Foreign Relations">Council on Foreign Relations</a> and a Resident Fellow at the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/German_Marshall_Fund_of_the_United_States" title="German Marshall Fund of the United States" class="mw-redirect">German Marshall Fund of the United States</a>.

From January 1977 to July 1999, Froman served as Chief of Staff of the

Department of the Treasury. As Chief of Staff, Froman served as Treasury

Secretary <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Robert_E._Rubin" title="Robert E. Rubin">Robert E. Rubin</a>'s

advisor on international and domestic economic policy, financial

regulation, enforcement, tax, budget, management and communications

issues. He was responsible for coordinating and implementing the

Secretary's priorities throughout the Department and its 12 operating

bureaus and served as the Secretary's liaison to the White House and

other government agencies.

"Previously, Froman was Treasury Deputy Assistant Secretary for

Eurasia and the Middle East. His responsibilities included U.S. economic

policy toward the Former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe,

as well as the implementation of the economic components of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Dayton_Accords&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dayton Accords (page does not exist)">Dayton Accords</a>.

From January 1993 to December 1995, Froman was director for

International Economic Affairs on the National Economic Council and the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Security_Council" title="National Security Council" class="mw-redirect">National Security Council</a>

at the White House, where he worked on a wide range of international

trade and foreign investment policies. Prior to assuming his position at

the White House, Froman served as liaison of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Bar_Association" title="American Bar Association">American Bar Association</a>'s

Central and East European Law Initiative legal assistance program in

the Republic of Albania and as a member of the Forward Studies Unit of

the European Commission in Brussels.

"Froman received a bachelor's degree in public and international

affairs from Princeton University, a doctorate in international

relations from Oxford University, and a law degree from Harvard Law

School." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Michael_B.G._Froman#cite_note-2">[2]</a>

<ul><li>Advisory Board, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Schwartz_Center_for_Economic_Policy_Analysis" title="Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis">Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis</a></li><li>Director, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Security_Network" title="National Security Network">National Security Network</a></li></ul>

<h2>Resources and articles</h2>

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Michael B. Froman (born August 20, 1962)<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Froman#cite_note-1">[1]</a> is an American lawyer who has served as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_the_United_States_Trade_Representative" title="Office of the United States Trade Representative">U.S. Trade Representative</a> since 2013. He previously was Assistant to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States">President of the United States</a> and Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economic Affairs, a position held jointly at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Security_Council" title="United States National Security Council">National Security Council</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Economic_Council" title="United States National Economic Council">National Economic Council</a> where he served as the United States <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherpa_%28emissary%29" title="Sherpa (emissary)">sherpa</a> to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G7" title="G7" class="mw-redirect">G7</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G8" title="G8" class="mw-redirect">G8</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G20_major_economies" title="G20 major economies" class="mw-redirect">G20</a> summits of economic powers.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Froman#cite_note-HLN0127-2">[2]</a> On May 2, 2013 President Obama nominated him to succeed Ambassador <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Kirk" title="Ron Kirk">Ron Kirk</a> as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_the_United_States_Trade_Representative" title="Office of the United States Trade Representative">U.S. Trade Representative</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Froman#cite_note-3">[3]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Froman#cite_note-4">[4]</a> He was confirmed on June 19, 2013.

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<ul><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Froman#Early_life_and_Education">1 Early life and Education</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Froman#Career">2 Career</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Froman#Personal">3 Personal</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Froman#References">4 References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Froman#External_links">5 External links</a></li></ul>

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<h2>Early life and Education</h2>

Froman grew up in a Jewish family<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Froman#cite_note-5">[5]</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Rafael,_California" title="San Rafael, California">San Rafael</a> and graduated from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Branson_School" title="The Branson School">The Branson School</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Froman#cite_note-6">[6]</a> As a teen, Froman was active in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBYO" title="BBYO">B'nai B'rith Youth Organization</a> serving as the 56th International President in 1980<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Froman#cite_note-7">[7]</a> and spoke at the BBYO International Convention in Washington, D.C. in February 2013.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Froman#cite_note-8">[8]</a> Froman received an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor%27s_degree" title="Bachelor's degree">A.B.</a> in Public and International Affairs from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson_School" title="Woodrow Wilson School" class="mw-redirect">Woodrow Wilson School</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeton_University" title="Princeton University">Princeton University</a> in 1985, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctorate" title="Doctorate">DPhil</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Relations" title="International Relations" class="mw-redirect">International Relations</a> entitled, The development of the idea of detente in American political discourse, 1952-1985, from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_University" title="Oxford University" class="mw-redirect">Oxford University</a> and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juris_Doctor" title="Juris Doctor">J.D.</a> from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Law_School" title="Harvard Law School">Harvard Law School</a> where he was a classmate of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Froman#cite_note-HLN0127-2">[2]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Froman#cite_note-observer-9">[9]</a> and also where he was an associate of Obama's on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Law_Review" title="Harvard Law Review">Harvard Law Review</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Froman#cite_note-NYT2008-10">[10]</a>

<h2>Career</h2>

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Froman served as liaison of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Bar_Association" title="American Bar Association">American Bar Association</a>'s Central and East European Law Initiative (CEELI) legal assistance program in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albania" title="Albania">Albania</a>. He was also a member of the Forward Studies Unit of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Commission" title="European Commission">European Commission</a> in Brussels.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Froman#cite_note-HLN0127-2">[2]</a>

Between January 1993 and December 1995, Froman was Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economic Affairs on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Economic_Council" title="United States National Economic Council">United States National Economic Council</a>, a position held jointly at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Security_Council" title="United States National Security Council">National Security Council</a> and the National Economic Council.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Froman#cite_note-HLN0127-2">[2]</a> He was Deputy Assistant Secretary for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasia" title="Eurasia">Eurasia</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East" title="Middle East">Middle East</a>, where his work was related to economic policy towards the former <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a>, Central and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Europe" title="Eastern Europe">Eastern Europe</a>, as well as economic components of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayton_Accords" title="Dayton Accords" class="mw-redirect">Dayton Accords</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Froman#cite_note-HLN0127-2">[2]</a> He was a Senior Fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations and a Resident Fellow at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Marshall_Fund" title="German Marshall Fund">German Marshall Fund</a>.

Froman spent much of his career within the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_the_Treasury" title="United States Department of the Treasury">United States Department of the Treasury</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Froman#cite_note-HLN0127-2">[2]</a> where he rose to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_of_Staff_to_the_United_States_Secretary_of_the_Treasury" title="Chief of Staff to the United States Secretary of the Treasury">Chief of Staff</a> under <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Rubin" title="Robert Rubin">Robert Rubin</a> in January 1997 and served until July 1999.

After the end of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Bill_Clinton" title="Presidency of Bill Clinton">Clinton administration</a> in 2001, Froman followed Robert Rubin from the Treasury Department to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citigroup" title="Citigroup">Citigroup</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Froman#cite_note-NYT2008-10">[10]</a> He was President and Chief Executive Officer of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citigroup" title="Citigroup">CitiInsurance</a> and head of Emerging Markets Strategy at Citigroup, managing infrastructure and sustainable development investments.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Froman#cite_note-HLN0127-2">[2]</a> He received more than $7.4 million from January 2008 to 2009 alone.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Froman#cite_note-11">[11]</a>

Froman and Obama were not in touch after their time at Harvard until <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_career_of_Barack_Obama" title="United States Senate career of Barack Obama">Obama's 2004 Senate run</a>, when Froman volunteered to advise Obama on policy; he introduced Obama to Robert Rubin.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Froman#cite_note-NYT2008-10">[10]</a> In 2008 Froman served on a 12-member advisory board of the Obama campaign’s transition team,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Froman#cite_note-HLN0127-2">[2]</a>

and joined the White House for a second run in 2009. He went back to

the position he held during the Clinton years, as deputy assistant to

the president and deputy national security adviser for international

economic affairs, at the National Security Council and the National

Economic Council until 2013.

On May 2, 2013, Froman was nominated to serve as U.S. Trade

Representative. Financial documents provided to the Senate Finance

Committee showed he had nearly $500,000 in an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offshore_fund" title="Offshore fund">offshore fund</a> at Ugland House on the Cayman Islands, which Obama had once described as “the biggest tax scam in the world.” <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Froman#cite_note-nyt-12">[12]</a> In 2013 congressional testimony, Rep. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Brady" title="Kevin Brady">Kevin Brady</a>, Republican from Texas, criticized the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-carbon_fuel_standard#Europe" title="Low-carbon fuel standard">EU low carbon fuel standard</a>, where oil from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_sand" title="Oil sand" class="mw-redirect">tar-sands</a>

is classified by itself due to its higher carbon polluting impact

compared to regular oil as a "discriminatory, environmentally

unjustified" trade barrier, to which Froman responded, "I share your

concerns," followed by a description of his work to "press the

Commission to take the views of . . . U.S. refiners under

consideration." Froman's role as in the drafting of classified trade

deals (made public by WikiLeaks) is under scrutiny by lawyers and

politicians alike.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Froman#cite_note-RS-13">[13]</a> The U.S. Senate confirmed Froman in a 93-4 vote on June 19, 2013.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Froman#cite_note-14">[14]</a> One of the four dissenting senators was Massachusetts Democrat <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Warren" title="Elizabeth Warren">Elizabeth Warren</a>, who faulted Froman for "refusing to commit to [...] standards of transparency in trade talks set by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush_administration" title="George W. Bush administration" class="mw-redirect">George W. Bush administration</a>".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Froman#cite_note-RS-13">[13]</a> Environmental groups have <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.foe.org/news/news-releases/2015-11-trans-pacific-partnership-text-exposes-threat-to-environment">criticized</a>

Froman for negotiating the Trans Pacific Partnership trade agreement in

secret and that he "took care of his friends on Wall Street and in

corporate board rooms at the expense of sound environmental and climate

policy." <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Froman#cite_note-15">[15]</a>

<h2>Personal</h2>

Froman lives in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> with his wife, Nancy Goodman.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Froman#cite_note-NYT2008-10">[10]</a> They have one son, Benjamin, and one daughter, Sarah. His older son, Jacob, died in 2009 at age ten from a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medulloblastoma" title="Medulloblastoma">medulloblastoma</a>, a rare form of pediatric <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_tumor" title="Brain tumor">brain cancer</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Froman#cite_note-16">[16]</a>
===<a href="http://ecowatch.com/2016/02/04/tpp-gambles-away-our-future">http://ecowatch.com/2016/02/04/tpp-gambles-away-our-future</a>At a convention center and casino in Auckland, U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman signed the Trans-Pacific Partnership (<a href="http://ecowatch.com/?s=tpp">TPP</a>) trade deal, setting the clock ticking for President Obama to send the deeply flawed deal to Congress for approval.

For years, the Sierra Club <a href="https://www.sierraclub.org/sites/www.sierraclub.org/files/uploads-wysiwig/dirty-deal.pdf" target="_blank">has reported on</a> and campaigned against the TPP’s threats to our air, water, <a href="http://ecowatch.com/climate-change-news/">climate</a>, families and communities.

The U.S. Trade Representative is gambling away our jobs, our clean

air and water, and our future by pushing the polluter-friendly

Trans-Pacific Partnership, so it only makes sense that it was signed in a

casino and convention center. Signing the TPP is Russian roulette for

our economy and our climate.

Today’s trade rules are rigged, like a bad game of blackjack, to

favor powerful big polluters and other greedy corporations. Just look at

<a href="http://ecowatch.com/?s=TransCanada">TransCanada</a>. That Big Oil company is <a href="http://ecowatch.com/2016/01/07/transcanada-sues-obama/">suing the American people</a>

under NAFTA for $15 billion as ‘compensation’ for the Keystone XL

decision that spared us the threat of increased climate disruption and

dirty, dangerous oil spills. The TPP sweetens the pot for many more

foreign fossil fuel corporations, empowering them to follow

TransCanada’s bad example of challenging our climate protections in

private trade tribunals.

Thankfully, it’s not too late to stop this toxic deal. Congress holds

the trump card on the widely unpopular TPP, so now is the time to urge

our representatives to reject the toxic trade deal and build a new model

of trade that puts the health and safety of people before the profits

of big corporations that are already polluting our air and water.

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