Elena Bryan

Elena recently returned to the Washington, DC, area after nearly six years in Brussels. She was Senior Trade Representative at the U.S. Mission to the EU where she was USTR’s senior official in the EU, including on T-TIP. In more than 20 years at USTR, she oversaw bilateral trade relations in Southeast Asia and India, negotiated market access, rules of origin and development chapters in several U.S. trade agreements and represented the U.S. at the WTO. Early in her career, she served a tour at USTR’s Geneva office where she focused on tariff negotiations. Before moving to Brussels in 2011, she led U.S. efforts on the intersection between trade and development in the international trading system, including development aspects of the Trade Facilitation Agreement.