Michael Punke | |
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| United States Ambassador to the World Trade Organization | |
| In office April 2010 – January 20, 2017 | |
| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Peter Allgeier |
| Succeeded by | Dennis Shea |
| Personal details | |
| Born | December 7, 1964 Torrington, Wyoming, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse | Traci Punke |
| Children | 2 |
| Education | University of Massachusetts, Amherst George Washington University (BA) Cornell University (JD) |
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| Writing career | |
| Period | 2002–present |
| Genre | Western |
| Notable work | The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge |
Michael W. Punke (born December 7, 1964) is an American author, attorney, academic, and policy analyst. He is a former Deputy United States Trade Representative and U.S. Ambassador to the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. In 2017, he became vice president for public policy at Amazon Web Services.
As an author, Punke is best known for writing The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge (2002), which was adapted into film as The Revenant (2015), directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, with a screenplay by Iñárritu and Mark L. Smith, and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy.