
Maria Pagan
Former US Ambassador to the WTO and former Deputy USTR
Maria Pagan is an American attorney who served as the US Ambassador to the World Trade Organization in the Biden administration.
She also served as US Deputy Trade Representative. Pagan was formerly the Deputy General Counsel in the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR), working on trade negotiations, agreements, and regulations.
From 1993 to 2003, Pagan was an attorney advisor in the Office of the Chief Counsel for International Commerce at the US Department of Commerce. She then joined the USTR where she provided legal counsel and litigated disputes before the World Trade Organization.
Pagan is a graduate from Tufts University and has a Juris Doctor and Masters of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University.