Ambassador Max Sieben Baucus
In 2014 U.S. President Barack Obama nominated Max Sieben Baucus to be Ambassador of the United States of America to the Peoples Republic of China. He served as Ambassador from February 21, 2014 until January 19, 2017. Ambassador Baucus formerly served as the senior United States Senator from Montana. He served in the U.S. Senate from 1978 to 2014 and was Montana’s longest serving U.S. Senator as well as the third longest tenure among those serving in the U.S. Senate.
While in the Senate, Ambassador Baucus was Chairman and Ranking Member of the powerful Senate Committee on Finance. While Chairman, he was the chief architect of the Affordable Health Care Act (ACA) which was signed by President Barack Obama into law March 23, 2009. He also led the passage and enactment of the Free Trade Agreements with 11 countries: Australia, Bahrain, Jordan, Chile, Colombia, Morocco, Oman, Panama, Peru, Singapore and South Korea. He was deeply involved in orchestrating the congressional approval of permanent normal trade relations with China in 2000 and in facilitating China’s entrance into the World Trade Organization in 2001.
Ambassador Baucus also served as Vice Chairman of the Senate Joint Committee on Taxation and as a member of the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry where he led in the reauthorization of numerous Farm Bills. He was additionally selected as a member of the Senate Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction (Super Committee) following the financial crisis of 2008.
Before his election to the U.S. Senate, Ambassador Baucus represented Montana in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1975 to 1978 and represented Missoula, Montana in the Montana House of Representatives from 1973 to 1974.
Ambassador Baucus earned a bachelor’s and law degree from Stanford University.
Ambassador Baucus currently lives in Bozeman, Montana, where he and his wife, Melodee Hanes, have formed a consulting firm, Baucus Group LLC. Ambassador Baucus serves on the Board of Directors of Ingram Micro and the Board of Advisors to Alibaba Group. He additionally serves on the External Advisory Board to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.
博卡斯大使
2013年，美國總統巴拉克·奧巴馬提名博卡斯（Max Sieben Baucus）為美國駐華大使。他的任期從2014年2月21日至2017年1月19日。博卡斯大使此前是美國參議院代表蒙大拿州的參議員。他從1978年起就擔任參議員直到2014年，是蒙大拿州歷史上任職時間最長的國會參議員，也是美國參議院歷史上任職時間第三長的參議員。
在參議院期間，博卡斯曾擔任很有權勢的財政委員會主席和副主席。在擔任主席期間，他是奧巴馬總統2009年3月23日簽署的《平價醫療法案》（ACA）的主要設計師。他還領導了美國和11個國家的自由貿易協定的通過和頒佈，包括：澳大利亞、巴林、約旦、智利、哥倫比亞、摩洛哥、阿曼、秘魯、新加坡和韓國。他還深度參與策劃國會2000年批准給予中國永久正常貿易關係，以及2001年幫助中國加入世界貿易組織。
博卡斯大使還在參眾兩院稅收聯合委員會擔任副主席，並曾是參議院農業、營養和林業委員會成員，並領導重新批准了多個農業法案。他還在2008年金融危機後被選為參議院削減赤字聯合特別委員會（超級委員會）成員。
在成為美國參議員前，博卡斯大使於1975年至1978年擔任美國國會眾議員，並曾在1973年至1974年擔任蒙大拿州議會眾議員。
博卡斯大使在斯坦福大學獲得本科和法學博士學位。
博卡斯大使目前和妻子一起生活在蒙大拿州博茲曼市，並創辦了諮詢公司鮑卡斯集團有限責任公司。博卡斯大使還在英邁公司（Ingram Micro）擔任董事會成員，並是阿里巴巴集團的顧問委員會成員。他還擔任美國中央情報局外部顧問委員會成員。