Master of Science in Foreign Service

ANDREW W. SHOYER is a partner in the Washington, DC office of Sidley Austin LLP and chairs the firm's international trade and dispute resolution practice. Mr. Shoyer focuses on the implementation and enforcement of international trade and investment agreements. Drawing on his experience at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) and with the WTO, Mr. Shoyer advises companies, trade associations and governments on the use of WTO, NAFTA and other treaty-based trade rules to open markets and resolve disputes. For example, he has worked with manufacturers on WTO compliance in China and on protection of intellectual property in bilateral and regional free trade negotiations. He has also assisted a global telecommunications services supplier in WTO dispute settlement proceedings to combat unfair conditions of competition in Mexico.

Mr. Shoyer spent seven years at USTR, serving most recently as Legal Advisor in the U.S. Mission to the WTO in Geneva. He was the principal negotiator for the United States of the rules implementing the WTO Dispute Settlement Understanding, and has briefed and argued numerous WTO cases before dispute settlement panels and the WTO Appellate Body. He also served as legal counsel on the $500 billion global Information Technology Agreement concluded in 1996 and on customs-related matters during the GATT Uruguay Round.

Prior to his arrival in Geneva, Mr. Shoyer was Assistant General Counsel at USTR in Washington, D.C., where he served as principal legal counsel in the negotiation of the market access rules of the NAFTA, as well as the framework agreements with various Latin American countries. He also worked on numerous trade policy issues with Congress and the economic agencies of the Executive Branch, including the drafting of the Andean Trade Preference Act.