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Douglas Petersen is PhRMA’s Vice President for international trade. Previously, he was international trade counsel for the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, an international trade attorney with White & Case LLP and a trade policy analyst at the Cato Institute. He received a law degree from New York University, a graduate degree from the London School of Economics, and undergraduate degrees from the University of Utah.

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March 12, 2025

USTR remembers—three years later—that it announced a trade initiative with Europe

November 1, 2024

No Region Left Behind: USTR expands its unambitious trade agenda to the western hemisphere

July 29, 2024

Why won’t USTR strengthen medical supply chains with America’s allies?

April 25, 2024

The Biden Administration has failed to advance an inclusive, worker-centered trade agenda

September 5, 2023

Four ways that America’s biopharmaceutical industry supports jobs and fuels economic growth

May 18, 2023

Will the administration capitalize on the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework to drive medical innovation?

March 13, 2023

Biden administration should prioritize innovation in U.S.-Taiwan Initiative on 21st-Century Trade

January 17, 2023

PhRMA submission to USTR calls for urgent defense of American innovation abroad

November 1, 2022

PhRMA encourages Biden administration to pursue ambitious Indo-Pacific Economic Framework

April 13, 2022

PhRMA submission to 2022 National Trade Estimate Report underscores need for pro-innovation U.S. trade policy to combat COVID-19

October 29, 2021

Strengthening the WTOs global trade and health agenda

October 18, 2021

U.S. trade policy must prioritize American biopharmaceutical innovation and patient access

November 2, 2020

PhRMA submission to 2020 National Trade Estimate Report: Urgent action required to protect U.S. biopharmaceutical innovation

November 8, 2019

World Trade Month: How we can expand world-class pro-innovation standards

May 22, 2019

Fact Check: Biologics, regulatory data protection and the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement

February 27, 2019

PhRMA submission to the 2019 National Trade Estimate Report urges action to protect U.S. biopharmaceutical innovation

November 2, 2018

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