Jonathan T. Fried is a Senior Advisor with Bennett Jones, LLP in Ottawa and the Albright Stonebridge Group in Washington, DC, Senior Associate to the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC, and Advisor to Llewellyn Consulting in London, UK. Prior to his retirement from the Government of Canada in August 2020, he was Coordinator for International Economic Relations, with a mandate encompassing Canada-Asia and international trade and economic policy. He was the Personal Representative of Prime Minister Trudeau for the G20 from 2017-2020. He was Canada’s Ambassador to the WTO 2012-2017, where he was Chair of the WTO’s General Council (2014) and Chair of the Dispute Settlement Body (2013). Formerly Canada’s Ambassador to Japan; Executive Director for Canada, Ireland and the Caribbean at the IMF; Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to the Prime Minister; Senior Assistant Deputy Minister for the Department of Finance and Canada’s G7 and G20 Finance Deputy, and earlier Chief Negotiator on China’s WTO accession; and chief counsel for NAFTA. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Foundation and the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Health Standards Organization and the Advisory Boards of the World Trade Board and the Central and East European Law Institute. He was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun by Japan in November 2022. He received his B.A. and LL.B. from the University of Toronto, and LL.M. from Columbia University.