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Daniel Bob |
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Daniel Bob is a Principal at Canonbury
Advisors. Previously he served as the Senior Advisor to the Director
of Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight, where he assisted
the Director in ensuring the safety and soundness of Fannie Mae and
Freddie Mac, and supervised the agency¡¯s international activities.
Mr. Bob has focused on international matters throughout his career,
including during his service at OFHEO, as a Japan-based Fellow of
the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations, Special Assistant to the Chairman
of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, Senior Advisor to a major U.S.
law and lobbying firm and Research Advisor and Fellow at Chinese and
Japanese think tanks and universities. |
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| While in the Congress, Mr. Bob played a leading role
in ensuring annual grants of normal trade relations status to China
from 1996-99 and permanent normal trade relations for the country
in 2000, the last major obstacle to China¡¯s entry to the World Trade
Organization. Mr. Bob was also an instrumental force in the indefinite
and unconditional extension of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty,
formulation of the U.S. response to the Asian financial crisis of
1997-98, North Korea¡¯s nuclear threat and Hong Kong¡¯s reversion to
China; the enhancement of U.S.-Japan trade and security relations;
and the development of U.S relations with Burma; U.S. diplomatic recognition
of Vietnam; trade relations with Laos; and FTAs with Singapore and
Australia. |
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| A life member of the Council on Foreign
Relations, Mr. Bob was named by the Center for Strategic and International
Studies to its Next Generation Project for Future Leaders in American Foreign
Policy. He also helped found and served as director of the Congressional
Study Group on Japan; as advisor to China¡¯s Pudong Academy of Development
and Japan¡¯s Diet Constitutional Research Commission, Visiting Scholar at
Keio University; as participant in the Trilateral Commission; contributor
to national intelligence estimates of the National Intelligence Council;
and as a member of the group that produced the Armitage report, which has
served as the blueprint for U.S.-Japan relations under the Bush Administration.
Mr. Bob also played siginificant roles in the entrance of Slavokia and Slovenia
to NATO, U.S relations with Burma, Indonesia¡¯s political reforms, developments
in the Pacific Islands, U.S.-Vietnam diplomatic recognition, trade relations
with Laos, FTAs with Singapore, Australia, New Zealand. |
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A graduate of Yale and Harvard Universities,
and a former Fulbright Scholar in Fiji, Mr. Bob is the author of a book
in Japanese investment in the United States, has had articles published
in numerous periodicals and appeared frequently as a speaker and commentator
on U.S.-Asia relations and U.S. economic, trade and foreign policy. |
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