. >> please join me in welcoming ambassador miriam shapiro and jeffrey shatt. we add a wonderful session last fall that i had the pleasure of moderating with ambassador carla hills and ambassador wilson, and it was the 20th anniversary of nafta, and we took a look back at what nafta had achieved and a look forward at what nafta still had to achieve. and it would be wonderful if 20 years from now we could have the psalm -- the same session focusing on ttip and tap. ambassador shapiro will talk about her role in them, and jeff shatt will also talk about their likelihood of passage and some of the details and hurdles to be overcome. so i didn't even introduce myself, i'm constance hunter, i'm the chief economist at kpmg. i'm on the board of nabe, and we have with us ambassador miriam shapiro who has served as the deputy ustr since december 2009, and she has been involved in many, many aspects of u.s. trade negotiations. she is responsible for trade negotiations and enforcements in europe, the middle east, north africa, the americas including the transatlantic econ