Michael Froman
Michael Froman comes to Palm Beach to talk about the massive geopolitical and geoeconomic shifts that will shape the next decade and which have the potential to reshape the world order we have come to know in the “long twentieth century.”
Trained as a lawyer (Princeton, Oxford, Harvard), in 2023 Michael Froman became president of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the nation’s leading nonpartisan geopolitical think tank. He previously served as vice chairman and president for strategic growth at Mastercard and as chairman of the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth.
Michael Froman served in President Obama’s cabinet as the U.S. trade representative from June 2013 to January 2017. Major initiatives under his leadership included the conclusion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, negotiations toward a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership with the European Union and the negotiation of agreements with the World Trade Organization, the African Growth and Opportunity Act, the Generalized System of Preferences program, and the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act. Michael Froman served from January 2009 to June 2013 as assistant to the president and deputy national security advisor for international economic affairs. In that position he was the United States “sherpa” to the G7, G8, and G20 summits of economic powers.