BIOGRAPHY: Daniel Bob
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.
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.
   
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.
 

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.