WASHINGTON—Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez applauded the hearing by the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs for its consideration of the nomination of Mario Mancuso to be Under Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration and head of the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS).
“I look forward to working with Chairman Dodd, Senator Shelby and the Members of the Banking Committee to have a speedy vote both in Committee and by the full Senate.
“Mario is a true patriot and his government service, considerable private-sector experience, combined with his leadership skills, will make him a tremendous addition to the Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security.” Background If confirmed, Mancuso will head the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security, which advances U.S. national security, foreign policy, and economic objectives by ensuring an effective export control and treaty compliance system and promoting continued U.S. strategic technology leadership.
A combat veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Mancuso has served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Combating Terrorism since August 2005. He is the Defense Department's senior civilian official with immediate responsibility for the Department's global counterterrorism portfolio, which includes policy oversight of sensitive special operations missions and formulation and refinement of the Department's global counterterrorism strategy.
Prior to his government service, Mancuso was a member of a leading international law firm Shearman & Sterling in New York and London, with expertise on global business and national security issues, where he represented leading investment banks and technology companies in corporate transactions in the United States, Europe and the Middle East. Mr. Mancuso has also represented numerous foreign and domestic issuers in connection with their offerings on the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ.
He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University, and from New York University School of Law. Before entering private legal practice, Mancuso was law clerk to the Hon. Thomas C. Platt (EDNY), and served as an infantry officer with the U.S. Army.
Source: U.S. Department of Commerce
