Robert Zoellick
Robert Zoellick
Robert Bruce Zoellickis an American banker who was the eleventh president of the World Bank, a position he held from July 1, 2007 to June 30, 2012. He was previously a managing director of Goldman Sachs, United States Deputy Secretary of Stateand U.S. Trade Representative, from February 7, 2001 until February 22, 2005. Zoellick has been a senior fellow at his alma mater Harvard Kennedy School since retirement from the World Bank in July 1, 2012...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth25 July 1953
CityNaperville, IL
CountryUnited States of America
focuses on the interests of energy, both energy security, but also energy efficiency. It focuses on the vital role of energy in development and it also focuses on the issues of climate change. It opens up the possibilities for developing, deploying, and transferring cleaner, more efficient technologies.
I believe there is a right balance of interests that can be found to enable us to launch the multilateral negotiations at the upcoming ministerial meeting. It's very important for the global economy that we do so, and it's very important for world politics that we do so,
built on shared interests and shared values are deep and lasting.
So, I actually think there's some commonality of interest on this topic.
As it turns out, the Chinese are not all that interested in having huge subsidies for the agriculture anyway because as we've discovered in our country and others, these become rather expensive,
It would be a grave mistake to permit any one country to veto America's drive for global free trade.
The United States has no closer alliance partner than Australia, ... Our special partnership is built on the solid foundation of common values and our shared commitment to a free, secure, and prosperous world.
Both are already major influences in world trade. Their participation in the WTO will be a boost for us and them.
The terrorists deliberately chose the World Trade towers as their target. While their blow toppled the towers, it cannot and will not shake the foundation of world trade and freedom. Our response has to counter fear and panic, and counter it with free trade.
I've always believed that openness is America's trump card.
You have to regain the (peace) momentum by getting people to respect the cease-fire, come up with a coherent negotiating position and when the negotiations resume on November 20, to get the rebels as well as the government ... to make more progress toward a peace accord,
There's going to be no deal here with Aleman on the part of the United States, ... a convicted criminal.
We are too interconnected to try to hold China at arm's length, ... It is time to take our policy beyond opening doors to China's membership into the international system, we need to urge China to become a responsible stakeholder in that system.
We are too interconnected to try to hold China at arm's length, hoping to promote other powers in Asia at its expense.