Mr. Paul Drazek

Council Member Biography

Paul Drazek is a Partner at DTB Associates in Washington, DC, where he has over 29 years of experience in the field of international trade policy and an extensive knowledge of domestic and international trade rules and practices. Previously, Mr. Drazek was Special Assistant to the Secretary of Agriculture for International Affairs, where he was involved in numerous bilateral and multilateral consultations and negotiations involving agricultural trade issues in every region of the world. He represented the Department on behalf of the Secretary in high-level interagency meetings to formulate U.S. trade policy, and coordinated policy-level groups to develop strategies for resolving trade disputes with foreign countries. Mr. Drazek was the Department’s principal strategist and spokesman on sanitary, phytosanitary and other regulatory barriers to U.S. farm and food exports, and was responsible for interagency groups he created on biotechnology and technical barriers to trade. Before that, he served as Director of Governmental Relations for the American Farm Bureau Federation from 1985-1995, where he specialized in international affairs and legislative issues affecting U.S. agricultural trade. Mr. Drazek began his career with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service, serving fourteen years as a trade policy and marketing specialist. (This is me - Update Profile)

Employment History

2000 - Unspecified

Partner, DTB Associates, LLP

1996 - 1999

Special Assistant, U.S. Department of Agriculture

1985 - 1995

Director of Governmental Relations, AMERICAN FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURE