Bob Riemenschneider is the Deputy Administrator, Office of Negotiations and Agreements in the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) of USDA.  His office is responsible for coordinating FAS’s overall trade policy positions and leading USDA’s efforts in multilateral, regional and bilateral trade negotiations. 

Prior to his current assignment, he was the Director of the Grain and Feed Division of FAS where he oversaw FAS's work in the areas of foreign commodity analysis and market development for grain and grain products, and provided the analytical support for those commodities in the operation of USDA's export programs, market promotion activities and trade policy initiatives. 

He joined the Foreign Agricultural Service in 1975 and has worked in the trade policy and commodity programs areas, as well as a tour as U.S. Agricultural Attache at the American Embassy in Paris.  He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Agricultural Economics from Rutgers University.  He is a native of Bel Air, Maryland, where he grew up on the family dairy farm.

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