Timothy J. Hauser (December 6, 1948,

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– August 18, 2005, Nags Head, North Carolina) was an American

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and the

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of the

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Biography

Timothy Hauser graduated from Mt. Lebanon High School near

, in 1966. He then attended

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, earning a

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in international relations in 1972. He did additional postgraduate work at the

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Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, in

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, and in

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, Italy. He was fluent in both Italian and French. Hauser served in the

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as a

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in the 1970s. He went to work as an

with the

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in 1971. He moved to the

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on the staff of the assistant secretary for policy before 1980. In 1986, he was detailed to the

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for a year as deputy executive secretary of the Economic Policy Council, after which he returned to the Commerce Department as deputy assistant secretary of planning. In 1991, he became the first career civil servant to be appointed deputy undersecretary of the Commerce Department. He earned the

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twice, in 1992 and 2003. The International Trade Administration has established the Timothy J. Hauser Award in his honour.

References

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