Gilbert B. Kaplan

Gilbert B. Kaplan is an American attorney who is a partner at King & Spalding. He is President Donald Trump's nominee to become Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade in the United States Department of Commerce. Kaplan is the co-founder of the Manufacturing Policy Initiative at Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs. During the administration of Ronald Reagan, Kaplan served as Deputy Assistant Secretary, Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration, and Director of the Office of Investigations at the Department of Commerce. A former steel industry lobbyist, he has won cases against China.