Since joining DTB Associates Mark Sloan has specialized in market access analysis related to both the WTO agricultural negotiations and U.S. Free Trade Agreement  negotiations.  While with DTB, Mr. Sloan has provided advice to the U.S. pork, grain, rice, poultry and almond industries.  Drawing on 22 years of government experience, Mr. Sloan has a broad range of contacts in both the U.S. government and foreign governments.

Prior to joining DTB, Mr. Sloan was assigned to the Office of the United States Trade Representative, where he served as Director of Agricultural Affairs.  While serving in that position, Mr. Sloan was actively involved in a wide variety of bilateral and multilateral agricultural trade issues.  This included managing USTR work on bilateral issues with the European Union, such as the beef hormone dispute and negotiations on changes in the EU's WTO commitments with respect to grain.  He also represented USTR in work on the U.S. Section 201 safeguard actions, in formal WTO dispute settlement discussions with Korea, Canada and Venezuela on agricultural trade issues,  as well as a large number of other bilateral trade issues.  He played a key role at USTR in the development of a U.S. position on disciplines on agricultural export credits as part of the WTO agricultural negotiations.

During his twenty year career with USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS), Mr. Sloan served as Agricultural Counselor to Turkey (1995-1998) and as agricultural attache as the U.S. Mission to the European Communities (1986-1990).  He served in a variety of positions with the FAS in Washington, including Deputy Director of the Multilateral Trade Division (1992-1995) and Deputy Director of the Western Europe and Americas Division (1990-1992) in International Trade Policy.  Mr. Sloan represented the U.S. in agricultural market access negotiations with over 40 countries in the Uruguay Round.