Alan Wm. Wolff

Alan Wolff is Managing Partner of Dewey Ballantine's Washington, D.C. office. He also leads Dewey Ballantines international trade practice, representing a broad range of corporations and trade associations.

At Dewey Ballantine, Mr. Wolff has represented clients involved in some of the most important trade issues of our day. He has been credited with helping to open international markets for American products, including semiconductors, computer parts, telecommunications equipment, soda ash and forest products, and was involved in the planning for the U.S. initiative to open foreign markets for U.S. services industries. He has been active in efforts to limit trade distorting practices such as the competition among developed countries in export credits, protection of intellectual property, and limiting the use of trade-related investment performance requirements. he worked in support of Congressional approval of the Uruguay Round GATT agreements. He represented Eastman Kodak Company in seeking to open the Japanese market for consumer photographic film and paper, and AFLAC with respect to the opening of the Japanese insurance market.

He is currently a member of the Advisory Committees of the Institute for International Economics and the Economic Strategy Institute; Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the International Commercial Diplomacy Project; member of the National Advisory Board for the Center for National Policy; the Board of Trustees of the Monterey Institute of International Studies; the Global Economic Council of the National Planning Association; the American Society of International Law; the American Bar Association; the Council on Foreign Relations; the National Research Council's Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy; and the United States Department of State Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy.

Mr. Wolff served as United States Deputy Special Representative for Trade Negotiations (1977-1979), holding the rank of ambassador, after having served as General Counsel of the agency from 1974-77. As Deputy Trade Representative, Mr. Wolff was responsible for setting American policy for U.S. participation in the last major round of multilateral trade negotiations prior to the Uruguay Round. From 1968 to 1973, Mr. Wolff was an attorney dealing with international monetary, trade and development issues at the Treasury Department.

He is a member of the bar in Massachusetts, New York, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Court of International Trade, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the Supreme Court of the United States. He has published a number of books and articles on trade and U.S. trade law, including co-authoring Conflict Among Nations: Trade Policy for the 1990's, Westview Press, 1992, which sets forth an agenda for U.S. strategy for obtaining open markets and expanding world trade.