Robert Lighthizer
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| Born | Robert Emmet Lighthizer October 11, 1947 Ashtabula, Ohio, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Georgetown University |
| Member of | Council on Foreign Relations/Members J-L, Covington & Burling, Le Cercle |
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Covington & Burling lawyer. U.S. Trade Representative in the First Trump administration from 2017 to 2021, where he he was central in increasing tariffs and other trade barriers on China. First Bilderberg in 2024 where one of the subjects was "China". Similar role in Trump 2.0.
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Robert Emmet Lighthizer is an American corporate lawyer and government official who was the U.S. Trade Representative in the Trump administration from 2017 to 2021, where he was central in increasing tariffs and other trade barriers on China. He attended the 2024 Bilderberg meeting, where one of the subjects was "China".
In late 2024, "Lighthizer and his allies" prepared trade and economic policy actions for the Trump's second administration, laying the groundwork for "massive new tariffs", while preparing to "convince lawmakers and the public that their plans...will energize the economy instead of tanking it".[1]
Education
He attended Gilmour Academy in Gates Mills, Ohio, and later graduated from Georgetown University with a Bachelor of Arts in 1969 and a Juris Doctor in 1973.[2]
Career
In 1973, Lighthizer joined the firm of Covington and Burling in Washington, D.C. He left the firm in 1978 to work as chief minority counsel and later staff director and chief of staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance under Chairman Bob Dole.[3] In 1983, Robert Lighthizer was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to be Deputy U.S. Trade Representative for President Ronald Reagan.[4] In 1985, Lighthizer joined the Washington office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom as a partner and led the firm's international trade group.[5]
On January 3, 2017, President-elect Donald Trump announced his intention to nominate Lighthizer as his U.S. Trade Representative. Lighthizer was confirmed by the Senate on May 11, 2017, by a vote of 82-14. Lighthizer was an architect of American trade policy during Trump's first presidency. A protectionist and a trade skeptic, his policies are oriented toward protection of manufacturing in the United States. Lighthizer played a key role in the administration's renegotiation of NAFTA and the United States' trade war with China. Many of these trade policies were preserved, and in some cases extended, by the Biden administration.[6]
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/2024 | 30 May 2024 | 2 June 2024 | Spain Madrid | The 70th Bilderberg Meeting |
| Bilderberg/2025 | 12 June 2025 | 15 June 2025 | Sweden Stockholm | The 71st Bilderberg Meeting, the location and dates of which were announced online in 2024 |
| Bilderberg/2026 | 9 April 2026 | 12 April 2026 | US Washington DC Salamander Hotel | The 72nd Bilderberg Meeting, the location and dates of which were reported in April 2026, just days before the event. This is a sharp contrast with the 2025 Bilderberg, which was exposed online in 2024. |
| Donald Trump/First presidency | 20 January 2017 | 20 January 2021 | The fist Donald Trump administration. Operation Warp Speed, Russiagate. | |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/1984 | February 1984 | February 1984 | Switzerland WEF | By 1984, the Informal Gathering of World Economic Leaders (IGWEL) had already become a useful place for leaders to launch new ideas. Many initiatives that were later officially undertaken by international organizations or governments were in fact born in Davos. |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2019 | 22 January 2019 | 25 January 2019 | Switzerland WEF | "The reality is that we are in a Cold War [against China] that threatens to turn into a hot one." |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2020 | 21 January 2020 | 24 January 2020 | Switzerland WEF | This mega-summit of the world's ruling class and their political and media appendages happens every year, but 2020 was special, as the continuous corporate media coverage of COVID-19 started more or less from one day to the next on 20/21 January 2020, coinciding with the start of the meeting. |
References
- ↑ https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/12/lighthizer-trump-new-tariff-plan-00189114
- ↑ https://www.businessinsider.com/where-trumps-cabinet-went-to-college-2018-1
- ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1987/01/19/robewrt-e-lighthizer/6fe88a5f-aec9-4bba-95d0-2316db9617ca/
- ↑ https://www.congress.gov/nomination/98th-congress/189
- ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1987/01/19/robewrt-e-lighthizer/6fe88a5f-aec9-4bba-95d0-2316db9617ca/
- ↑ https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/04/robert-lighthizer-trump-adviser-trade-00172530
