Catherine Ashton, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the EC, went to Washington with James Morrison, Head of cabinet of Catherine Ashton, and Steven Everts, Member of cabinet of Catherine Ashton, to prepare the EU/United States Summit. She also met Robert Zoellick, President of the World Bank, Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State, Robert Hormats, American Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs, Bill Delahunt, Member of the American House of Representatives (Massachusetts), João Vale de Almeida, Head of the Delegation of the EU to the United States, and Angelos Pangratis, Deputy Head of the Delegation of the EU to the United States.