About Tom Graham

As the former Chair (2016 and 2019) and Member (2011-2019) of the World Trade Organization's Appellate Body, founder of the international trade practice at Skadden Arps, former head of the trade practice at King & Spalding, former Deputy General Counsel at the U.S. Trade Representative's Office, and recently a partner in Cassidy Levy Kent, Tom Graham brings a rare blend of experience to his current role as an advisor on trade disputes and negotiations.

Early in his career, Tom was a legal officer of the United Nations in Geneva, an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law School and at American University's Washington College of Law, and a visiting professor of law and assistant to the president of Ford Motor de Venezuela, in Caracas, Venezuela.

He was the founding chair of the American Society of International Law's Committee on International Economic Law, and he chaired the American Bar Association's Subcommittee on Exports. He has been a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution, and a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

J.D. Harvard Law School

B.A. Indiana University

Representative Public Communications

Speaking Engagements

Panelist, Bipartisan Policy Center, “The Future of the World Trade Organization” (with former WTO Director General Roberto Azevedo, former US Ambassador to the WTO Dennis Shea, William Reinsch and Nazak Nikakhtar), May 2022.

Panelist, Georgetown Law “Rethinking the WTO: Opportunities for Transatlantic Cooperation” (with Sabine Weyand, European Union Director General for International Trade, Jennifer Hillman, and Joost Pauwelyn), March 2021.

Panelist, U.S. Senate Finance Committee: “Reform of the WTO,” July 2020.

Panelist, House Ways & Means Committee, Trade Subcommittee: “WTO Reform, Roundtable,” June 2020.

Keynote Speaker, Georgetown International Trade Law Update, March 2020.

Co-Chair, Harvard Law School Conference: “Old Rules, New Problems: The WTO at 20” (with Harvard Law Professor Mark Wu), April 2016.

Philip J. Shapiro Endowed International Visiting Scholar Lecture, Hofstra Law School, 2013.

Publications

"Global Trade: War & Peace,” Foreign Policy magazine

"Revolution in Trade Politics," Foreign Policy magazine

Managing Trade Relations, (chapter contributor and co-editor), Cambridge University Press with American Society of International Law

"Environment and Trade: Relation of International Trade and Environmental Policy," (co-editor), American Society of International Law, (published in US and UK)

"Present at the Creation: Economists and Accountants in International Trade Law Practice," chapter in The Use of Economics in International Trade and Investment Disputes, Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Getting Open: The Unknown Story of Bill Garrett and the Integration of College Basketball (Simon & Schuster, Atria books, Indiana University Press paperback), co-author with daughter Rachel Graham Cody.