Steve Glickman is currently the Special Assistant and Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Trade Promotion and Director General of the U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service.  Steve received this appointment after serving in the White House as Deputy Associate Counsel for Presidential Personnel, with a focus on presidential appointments in the national security cluster.  During and following the 2008 presidential campaign, Steve was the Investigative Counsel to the Democratic National Committee and a vetting attorney on the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition Team. Prior to the campaign, Steve was Counsel to Chairman Henry Waxman on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, where he conducted investigations on waste, fraud, and abuse connected with the Bush Administration’s management of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Earlier in his career, Steve was selected as an Honors Program Attorney in the Department of Justice, where he held positions in the Criminal Division’s Office of International Affairs and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia.  Steve received his B.A. and M.A. from Georgetown University, J.D. from Columbia Law School, and LL.M. in Public International Law from the London School of Economics.  Steve was born in Michigan and raised in California.