Shaun Donnelly joined the National Association of Manufacturers (the NAM) as Senior Director for International Business Policy in 2008 after a thirty-six year career in the U.S. Government. The NAM is the leading voice in Washington of the industrial and manufacturing sector in America. As a U.S. Department of State Foreign Service Officer, Ambassador Donnelly served in six U.S. Embassies abroad, including as U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives (1997-2000.) In Washington he served in a series of senior economic policy jobs at the State Department dealing with trade, finance, energy, and commercial policy. From 2005 to 2008 he served at the White House as Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Europe and the Middle East, leading the U.S. Government’s trade negotiations and implementation for those two important regions. In that USTR capacity, Ambassador Donnelly led the U.S. team in the 2005-6 exploration of a possible Swiss-U.S. Free Trade Agreement.