our third speaker to my left will be ambassador susan schwab, who served as the united states trade representative for several years beginning in june of 2006. she is currently a professor at the school of public policy at the university of maryland. a quite railroad she has a history, as you served as the dean of the university of maryland school of public policy from 1995 to free. and if you read in the biographical material, you'll see a long series of achievements that she made in representing the united states in trade negotiations. the only one i'm not seeing there, susan, is the u.s. russia bilateral agreement in 2006. >> it should be in there. >> maybe it's my oversight. >> our final speaker will be klaus kleinfeld, the ceo of alcoa. the largest integrated alum number company in the world, 61,000 employees in 31 countries. he also serves as the chairman of the u.s.-russia business counsel. and i want to extend a shout out to the business counsel and their president ed verona and their vice president who have been working tirelessly for the coalition in the u.s. russia trade and working on

if you read in the biographical material that we have on susan schwab, you will see a long series of achievements that she made in the united states and trade negotiations. the only thing i'm not seeing there, susan, is the u.s. and russian bilateral. maybe it is by oversight. our final speaker will be klaus kleinfeld. the ceo of alcoa, the largest employer in 31 countries. that is a big job, and he also serves on the business council. i would like to extend a shout out to the russia business council. the vice president has been working with him for u.s. russian trade and on this effort to promote russia's graduation from the amendment and to establish permanent trade relations status status. which we hope will happen soon. with that, let me turn the floor over to the ambassador. [inaudible >> [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] >> we have the greatest nations. these are significant as a country. >> i think you probably have to switch the microphone to the on position. >> coming back with ideas to work in the country that they didn't know very well. that is quite normal.

our third speaker to my left will be ambassadress susan schwab, who served as the u.s.rade representative for several years beginning in june 2006. she is currently a professor of public policy at the university of maryland, where she has a long distinguished history, where you served as dean of the school of public policy from 1995 until 2003. in the biographical material we have, she is the recipient of many achievements she made representing the u.s. in trade negotiations. the only one i am not seeing is the u.s.-russia bilateral agreement in november of 2006. maybe that was my oversight. our final speaker will be klaus klienfeld, the ceo of alcoa. he also serves as the chairman for the russian-u.s. business council. i want to extend a shout out to the business council and their president, vice-president, who have been working tirelessly for the coalition for u.s. and russian trade, working to promote russia's graduation from previous amendments, being granted permanent normal trade relations status, which we hope will happen sometime soon this year. so with that, le