The North American Free Trade Agreement was an agreement signed by Canada,Mexico,and the United States that created a trilateral trade bloc in North America. The agreement came into force on January 1,1994,and superseded the 1988 Canada–United States Free Trade Agreement between the United States and Canada. The NAFTA trade bloc formed one of the largest trade blocs in the world by gross domestic product.
Floresville is a city in Wilson County,Texas,United States. According to the U.S. Census Bureau,its population was at 7,203 at the 2020 Census. It is the county seat of Wilson County. The city is also part of the San Antonio metropolitan statistical area.
John Thomas Schieffer is an American diplomat and entrepreneur who served as U.S. Ambassador to Australia from 2001 to 2005 and as U.S. Ambassador to Japan from 2005 to 2009.
Robert Schwarz Strauss was an influential figure in American politics,diplomacy,and law whose service dated back to future President Lyndon Johnson's first congressional campaign in 1937. By the 1950s,he was associated in Texas politics with the faction of the Democratic Party that was led by Johnson and John Connally. He served as the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee between 1972 and 1977 and served under President Jimmy Carter as the U.S. Trade Representative and special envoy to the Middle East. He later served as the Ambassador to Russia under President George H.W. Bush. Strauss also served as the last United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union.
Roy Michael Huffington was an American oilman originally from Tomball in Harris County,Texas,who later served as United States Ambassador to Austria.
Philip Lader,is a former US Ambassador to the Court of St. James’s and former chairman of WPP plc,the global advertising/communications services firm.
Cresencio "Cris" S. Arcos Jr. is an American diplomat.
Lyndon Lowell Olson Jr. is an American business executive and diplomat. He served as U.S Ambassador to Sweden between 1997 and 2001.
Rufus Hawkins Yerxa is an American lawyer and former U.S. government and international official. He is currently a Senior Advisor with the global consulting firm McClarty Associates. He served as Deputy United States Trade Representative during the George H.W. Bush and Clinton Administrations,and served for 11 years as Deputy Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO). From 2016 to 2021 he was President of the National Foreign Trade Council.
Thomas W. Wälde,former United Nations (UN) Inter-regional Adviser on Petroleum and Mineral Legislation,was Professor &Jean-Monnet Chair at the Centre for Energy,Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP),Dundee.
Keith Lapham Brown was an American lawyer,businessman,and former U.S ambassador.
Michael Braverman Goodman Froman is an American lawyer who is the current president of the Council on Foreign Relations. Froman served as the U.S. Trade Representative from 2013 to 2017. He was Assistant to the President of the United States and Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economic Affairs,a position held jointly at the National Security Council and the National Economic Council. In that position he served as the United States sherpa to the G7,G8,and G20 summits of economic powers. On May 2,2013,President Barack Obama nominated him to succeed Ambassador Ron Kirk as the U.S. Trade Representative. He was confirmed on June 19,2013.
Sally Angela Shelton-Colby is an American diplomat. She was Ambassador of the United States to Barbados,Grenada and Dominica as well as Minister to St Lucia,and Special Representative to Antigua,St. Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla,and St. Vincent from 1979 to 1981,under Jimmy Carter.
Geoffrey Scott Connor is an American public servant,attorney,historian,and businessman from the state of Texas. Connor has been an aide or appointee of several Republican Governors of Texas,including William P. Clements,Jr.,George W. Bush,and Rick Perry. Most notably,Connor served as the 104th Secretary of State of Texas under Governor Perry. Connor's tenure in this position was especially noteworthy for his efforts to build strong diplomatic and trade relationships between Texas and foreign countries.
Earl Anthony Wayne is an American diplomat. Formerly Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs,Ambassador to Argentina and Deputy Ambassador to Afghanistan,Wayne served nearly four years as Ambassador to Mexico. He was nominated by President Obama and confirmed by the Senate in August,2011. He departed Mexico City for Washington July 31,2015 and retired from the State Department on September 30,2015. Wayne attained the highest rank in the U.S. diplomatic service:Career Ambassador. He is currently a Professorial Lecturer and Distinguished Diplomat in Residence at American University's School of International Service where he teaches courses related to diplomacy and US foreign policy. Wayne also works with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars,the Atlantic Council,the Center for Strategic and International Studies,. Wayne is co-chair of the Mexico Institute's Advisory Board at the Wilson Center. He is also on the board of the American Academy of Diplomacy and the Public Diplomacy Council of America. Wayne is an independent consultant,speaker and writer and works with several not-for-profit professional associations. He was an adviser for HSBC Latin America on improving management of financial crime risk from 2015 until 2019 and served on the board of the American Foreign Service Association from 2017 to 2019.
Michael Kent Young is an American lawyer and academic administrator. He previously served as president of Texas A&M University from 2015 to 2020,president of the University of Washington from 2011 to 2015,president of the University of Utah from 2004 to 2011,and dean of the George Washington University Law School from 1998 to 2004.
Martin J. Silverstein is an American attorney and diplomat. He served as the United States Ambassador to Uruguay under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005.
Sidney Weintraub was an economist,foreign service officer,professor,non-fiction author,and novelist.
Sonia M. Johnny is a St. Lucian attorney who served as her country's first woman ambassador. She has served as the Chief Negotiator for the Caribbean,President of the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States,Chief of the OAS Department of Trade,Tourism and Competitiveness and Deputy Director of the Summits Secretariat.
Douglas Alan Silliman is the president of the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington and a former American diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to Kuwait (2014-16) and Iraq (2016-19).
