John P. Barker

In his most recent position at the State Department, John supervised the development and implementation of U.S. policy on multilateral nonproliferation and security regimes, and nonproliferation sanctions. As the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Export Controls, he supervised the U.S. munitions licensing and defense trade compliance under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) including imposing sanctions on companies for violation of U.S. export control law. He led U.S. negotiating teams to more than 20 countries, supervised audits of defense trade manufacturing facilities, and oversaw the U.S. government's nonproliferation review of dual-use exports subject to the Export Administration Regulations (EAR).

John testified frequently before the U.S. Congress on a wide variety of export control matters including trade sanctions, preventing the transfer of arms and dual-use technology to state sponsors of terrorism, the Export Administration Act, export licensing and compliance, and regulation of the aerospace industry.

John was recognized nationally in Chambers USA for his work on export controls and trade sanctions.

John received his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1986, where he was Managing Editor of the Journal of Law Reform. After his clerkship with the Honorable James S. Holden of the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont, he was appointed a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Center for International Affairs. He also served as a Visiting Fellow at London's International Institute for Strategic Studies. From 1988 to 1993, he was an associate at an international law firm, where he served in its Palo Alto, Tokyo, and San Francisco offices. While there, he co-authored a Stanford University study on ballistic missile proliferation.