Subject: Peter Scher

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Peter Scher is Chairman of the Mid-Atlantic JP Morgan Chase region, Head of Corporate Responsibility and serves as a member of the firm’s Operating Committee. Scher serves as the firm’s senior executive in the Mid-Atlantic region  overseeing commercial banking, asset management, investment banking and consumer banking throughout Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia. Prior to joining JPMorgan Chase in 2008, Scher was the Managing Partner of the Washington, D.C. office of Mayer Brown LLP and earlier served as the Chairman of the firm’s Government and Global Trade Practice. Scher spent nearly a decade in public service. Nominated by President Clinton, he was confirmed by the United States Senate as U.S. Special Trade Ambassador and served as one of the lead U.S. negotiators on China’s entry into the World Trade Organization. He previously served as Chief of Staff for the U.S. Trade Representative and the U.S. Department of Commerce, Staff Director for the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works and Chief of Staff to former U.S. Senator Max Baucus. Scher received his B.A. from American University (AU) and his J.D. from AU’s Washington College of Law.

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