President-elect Donald Trump will name an official who served under President Ronald Reagan to be the US trade representative, the transition team announced Tuesday.

Robert Lighthizer, who was deputy trade rep under Reagan, will be nominated for the position, a key posting for a president-elect who made international trade a major plank in the presidential campaign.

“I am fully committed to President-elect Trump’s mission to level the playing field for American workers and forge better trade policies which will benefit all Americans,” Lighthizer, a partner at the law firm Skadden, Arps Slate, Meagher and Flom, said in a statement.

Trump, who made his opposition to President Obama’s trade deals integral to his campaign, praised his choice of Lighthizer, saying, “He will do an amazing job helping turn around the failed trade policies which have robbed so many Americans of prosperity.”