Ambassador Rockwell A. Schnabel
Ambassador Schnabel was the United States ambassador to the European Union from 2001 to 2005. He previously served as acting secretary and deputy secretary of Commerce, and ambassador to Finland. A longtime businessman, he is one of the founding partners of Trident Capital, a California-based venture capital firm. He was president of the brokerage firm Bateman Eichler, Hill Richards (now Wachovia Bank). Ambassador Schnabel was born in the Netherlands where he attended Trinity College. He has written for the Wall Street Journal Europe, the Financial Times, the Washington Times and a host of other publications. He has appeared on CBS, CNBC, the Charlie Rose Show, Fox News, BBC Television, BBC Radio, and Bloomberg TV.

All of his net proceeds from this book will go to endow the Rockwell Anthony Schnabel Award for Advancing U.S. – EU Relations which recognizes outstanding efforts in advancing U.S. policy objectives through cooperation with the EU.

Francis X. Rocca
Francis X. Rocca is an American journalist based in Rome. He has written about European business, politics, and culture for the Wall Street Journal, Time, the (London) Spectator, the Jerusalem Post, Forbes, the Chronicle of Higher Education, BusinessWeek, the Atlantic Monthly, and the American Spectator. A former Fulbright fellow in Spain, he is a graduate of Gonzaga College High School, Harvard College (A.B.), St. John's College, Annapolis (M.A.), and Yale University (Ph.D.).