Senior Management

Joseph Tretler Jr.

Senior Vice President, International Policy

Joseph Tretler Jr. is the American National Standards Institute’s Senior Vice President for International Policy.

Mr. Tretler assumed this role in 2014, where he is responsible for leading ANSI’s policy coordination and liaison activities related to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), the European Committee for Standardization (CEN), the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC), the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), the European Organization for Testing and Certification (EOTC), the Pacific Area Standards Congress (PASC), and the Pan American Standards Commission (COPANT), as well as their national member bodies and other relevant groups.

He is also responsible for liaising with U.S. government agencies, such as the Department of Commerce (DoC)'s International Trade Administration (ITA) and National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), and the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA), as well as associations such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM).

Mr. Tretler joined ANSI in 1985 as a program administrator for the Institute’s standards technology department. He became ANSI’s program director, international, in 1989 and was promoted to information technology business director in 1996, overseeing implementation of processes and systems related to an organization-wide business process redesign. Beginning in 1998, Mr. Tretler served as ANSI’s senior director, international technical programs and services, managing ANSI’s coordination efforts related to U.S. participation in the ISO standardization activities, overseeing ANSI’s ISO outreach and enhanced services program, and leading ANSI’s ISO Team (ISOT), among other responsibilities.

He received his bachelor’s degree from Stony Brook University.