On Tuesday and Wednesday, January 16-17, the WITA Academy hosted nine sessions covering the World Trade Organization. The two-day Intensive Trade Seminar started with welcoming remarks by the World Trade Organization’s Director-General Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. Click the video above to watch the remarks.

This event was free to attend for embassy, ministry, and government officials thanks to the support of the WITA Academy by UPS, the Cristena Bach Yeutter Charitable Trust, and the American Apparel & Footwear Association.

If you are a government official and you wish watch the recordings of the Intensive Trade Seminar, please email us at events@wita.org to get access free of charge. Non-government individuals are able to purchase access to the recordings by contacting us at events@wita.org.

Curriculum and Speakers

Day 1: Structure and Functions of the World Trade Organization

Welcoming remarks by Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General, World Trade Organization

Session 1: Structure and Organization of the WTO: Ministerial Conference, Secretariat, General Council, Councils, Committees and Working Groups

Ambassador Didier Chambovey, former Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the World Trade Organization; former General Council Chair, World Trade Organization

Ambassador Santiago Wills, Director, General Council and Trade Negotiations Committee (TNC) Division, World Trade Organization; former Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Colombia to the World Trade Organization

Moderator: Ambassador Rufus Yerxa, Senior Advisor, McLarty Associates; former Deputy Director General, World Trade Organization; former Deputy United States Trade Representative, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative

Session 2: General Agreement on Trade in Services, and Joint Statement Initiative (JSI) on Electronic Commerce

Johanna Hill, Deputy Director General, World Trade Organization

Darryl Leong, Deputy Permanent Representative at Mission of Singapore to the World Trade Organization and World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva

Moderator: Ambassador Robert Holleyman, Partner, Crowell & Moring LLP and President & CEO, Crowell & Moring International; former Deputy United States Trade Representative, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative

Session 3: Agriculture and Food Security

Joseph W. Glauber, Senior Research Fellow, Markets, Trade and Institutions, International Food Policy Research Institute; former Chief Economist, U.S. Department of Agriculture; and former Special Doha Agricultural Envoy, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative

Ambassador Gloria Abraham Peralta, Consultant with the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA); former Costa Rican Ambassador to the World Trade Organization; former Chair of the WTO Committee on Agriculture in Special Session

Moderator: Sharon Bomer Lauritsen, Principal and Founder, AgTrade Strategies, LLC; former Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Agricultural Affairs and Commodity Policy, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative

Negotiation Groups

Session 4: Trade Disputes and Dispute Settlement Understanding

Jorge Castro, Director of the Legal Affairs Division, World Trade Organization

Niall Meagher, Executive Director of the Advisory Centre on WTO Law (ACWL)

Moderator: Michael O. Moore, Professor of Economics and International Affairs, George Washington University

Day 2: Multilateral Trade Policy Issues

Session 5: Negotiations and Reform

Angela Ellard, Deputy Director General, World Trade Organization 

Moderator: Paul H. DeLaney, III, Partner, Kyle House Group; former International Trade Counsel, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance; former Deputy Chief of Staff, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative

Session 6: Environment, Sustainability and Climate Change

Aik Hoe Lim, Director, Trade and Environment Division (TED), World Trade Organization

Ana Lizano, Minister Counsellor at the Permanent Mission of Costa Rica to the World Trade Organization

Moderator: Sarah Stewart, CEO and Executive Director, Silverado Policy Accelerator; former Assistant Deputy U.S. Trade Representative for Environment and Natural Resources, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative

Session 7: Development, Aid for Trade and Enhanced Integrated Framework

Simon Hess, Head of Monitoring & Evaluation, Enhanced Integrated Framework (EIF) Secretariat, World Trade Organization

Michael Roberts, Head of Aid for Trade, World Trade Organization

Moderator: Katrin Kuhlmann, Visiting Professor of Law; Faculty Co-Director, Center on Inclusive Trade and Development, Georgetown Law; Member, Trade Advisory Committee on Africa, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative

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Session 8: Disruptive Trends in Trade

Anabel González, Vice President for Countries, Inter-American Development Bank; former Deputy Director-General, World Trade Organization

Ralph Ossa, Director, Economic Research and Statistics Division (ERSD), World Trade Organization

Moderator: Michael J. Smart, Managing Director, Rock Creek Global Advisors; former Director for International Trade and Investment, National Security Council, The White House

Session 9: National Perspectives

Ambassador Li Chenggang, Permanent Representative of People’s Republic of China to the World Trade Organization

Ambassador João Aguiar Machado, Permanent Representative of the European Union to the World Trade Organization

Ambassador Brajendra Navnit, Permanent Representative of India to the World Trade Organization

Ambassador Maria Pagan, Deputy United States Trade Representative and Chief of Mission for the Permanent Mission of the United States to the World Trade Organization

Ambassador Eheth Salomon, Permanent Representative of Cameroon and Coordinator of the African Group to the World Trade Organization

Moderator: Mark Linscott, Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council; Senior Advisor at the Asia Group; and former Assistant United States Trade Representative for WTO and Multilateral Affairs

Thank you to our WITA Academy Sponsors

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On Monday, February 13th, and Tuesday, February 14th, 2023, WITA hosted its fifth annual Washington International Trade Conference (WITC). This conference brought together leaders in international trade from across the U.S. and around the world to explore the trade landscape and look toward the future of trade.

Day 2 of the Washington International Trade Conference 

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The event began with remarks from Kenneth I. Levinson, Executive Director of WITA, as he introduced the first two panelists: Angela Ellard, Deputy Director-General and World Trade Organization and Ambassador Rufus Yerxa, Senior Advisor, McLarty Associates; former WTO Deputy Director General; and former Deputy USTR.

The panelists of the second panel, “Climate Diplomacy and Trade – a NextGenTrade() discussion”, included Kelly Milton, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Environmental and Natural Resources, USTR, David Livingston, Managing Director for Clean Energy & Senior Advisor, U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry, Dan Esty, Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy, Yale School of the Environment and Yale Law School – on public service leave at the World Trade Organization, Julio José Prado, Minister of Production, Foreign Trade, Investment and Fisheries, Ministry of Production, Foreign Trade, Investments and Fisheries of Ecuador, Jo Tyndall, Director, Environment Directorate, OECD, and Moderator Maureen Hinman, Co-Founder, Chairman, Silverado Policy Accelerator.

The third panel of the conference, “Making a More Meaningful TTC in its 3rd Year”, featured speakers Michelangelo Margherita, Head of Trade, Agriculture and Digital Economy in the Delegation of the European Union to the U.S., Jonathan McHale, Vice President, Digital Trade, Computer & Communications Industry Association, Daniel Mullaney, former Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Europe and the Middle East, Jason Oxman, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI), and Moderator Marjorie Chorlins, Senior Vice President, Europe, U.S. Chamber of Commerce. 

The fourth panel, “Trade, Supply Chains and Industrial Policy”, included speakers Simon J. Evenett, Professor of International Trade and Economic Development, University of St. Gallen, Founder, St. Gallen Endowment for Prosperity Through Trade, Jimmy Goodrich, Vice President, Global Policy, Semiconductor Industry Association, Hon. Nazak Nikakhtar, Partner, Wiley Rein LLP; Senior Fellow, Center for Technology Diplomacy, Purdue University; and Strategic Advisor, Silverado Policy Accelerator, Scott Paul, President, Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM), and Moderator Jonathan Lang, Director for Trade and Supply Chains, Industrial & Consumer, Eurasia Group.

The fifth panel focused on “U.S.-China Strategic and National Security” and included the following panelists: Amy P. Celico, Principal Albright Stonebridge Group, Dentons Global Advisors, Samm Sacks, Senior Fellow, Yale Law School, Paul Tsai China Center, Scott Kennedy, Senior Adviser and Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics, Center for Strategic and International Studies, and Moderator Erin Ennis, Senior Vice President, Government Affairs, Dell Technologies. 

The start of the second day began with the panel providing an “Update From Congress” with U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-ID), Ranking Republican, Senate Finance Committee and Moderator Steve Lamar, President & CEO, American Apparel and Footwear Association, and President of the WITA Board of Directors. 

The second panel featured an “Update on the Administration’s Trade Agenda”, Marisa Lago, U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade opened the panel with remarks followed by questions from Moderator Wendy Cutler, Vice President, Asia Society Policy Institute and Managing Director of the Washington, D.C. Office; and former Acting Deputy United States Trade Representative. 

The closing session of the 2023 Washington International Trade Conference was the “Trade Around the World Ambassadors Roundtable” featuring Hon. Ashok Kumar Mirpuri, Ambassador of Singapore to the United States, Hon. Karin Olofsdotter, Ambassador of Sweden to the United States, Ambassador Tamaki Tsukada, Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy of Japan, Hon. Tanee Sangrat, Ambassador of Thailand to the United States, and Moderator Ambassador Susan Schwab, Strategic Advisor, Mayer Brown LLP; and former United States Trade Representative. 

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Featured Speakers:

Angela Ellard, Deputy Director-General, World Trade Organization (WTO)

Moderator: Sarah Stewart, Executive Director, Silverado Policy Accelerator; former Deputy Assistant USTR, Environment and Natural Resources

Moderator: Jennifer Prescott, Director AWS International Trade & Tax and Latin America Public Policy, Amazon Web Services; former Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Environment and Natural Resources

Speaker Biographies:

Angela Ellard

Angela Ellard has served as the World Trade Organization’s Deputy Director-General since June 2021. Prior to her appointment, Ms Ellard had a distinguished career serving in the US Congress as Majority and Minority Chief Trade Counsel for over 26 years. She is internationally recognized as an expert on trade and international economic policy, resolving trade and investment barriers, negotiating trade agreements, and supporting multilateral solutions as part of an effective trade and development policy. 

Ms Ellard has negotiated and delivered significant bipartisan trade policy outcomes and legislation with Members of U.S. Congress and senior Biden, Trump, Obama, Bush, and Clinton Administration officials. Ms Ellard was also a lawyer in the private sector, specializing in trade litigation and strategy, trade policy, and legislative issues.

Ms Ellard obtained her Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Tulane University School of Law and her Master of Arts in Public Policy also from Tulane. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Newcomb College of Tulane University, summa cum laude. Ms Ellard is a frequent lecturer at law – graduate, and undergraduate classes. She has received numerous awards recognizing her accomplishments in trade law and policy.

Sarah Stewart

Sarah V. Stewart is the Executive Director of Silverado Policy Accelerator. Ms. Stewart has nearly two decades of experience as an international trade lawyer, trade policy expert, and trade negotiator.

Immediately prior to joining Silverado, Ms. Stewart led the public policy efforts at Amazon on U.S. trade policy and export controls matters. From 2013 to 2018, Ms. Stewart worked for the Office of the United States Trade Representative, with her most recent position being the Deputy Assistant USTR for Environment and Natural Resources. During her time at USTR, Ms. Stewart was the lead environment chapter negotiator for the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations with the European Union.

Prior to joining USTR, Ms. Stewart served in different legal and policy roles at The Humane Society of the United States and Humane Society International, including spearheading a first ever international legal group. Ms. Stewart began her career at the Law Offices of Stewart and Stewart, where she worked on behalf of U.S. manufacturing companies and workers. Ms. Stewart serves as a policy advisor for the Center for Climate and Trade, is a fellow at the National Security Institute, and is on the advisory board of American University’s Washington College of Law Program on Environmental and Energy Law.

Jennifer Prescott

Jennifer Prescott joined Amazon in 2020 and serves as Director for International Trade and Tax Policy for Amazon Web Services (AWS), as well as Director of Latin America Public Policy for AWS. Prior to joining Amazon, Jennifer served as Assistant United States Trade Representative (USTR) for Environment and Natural Resources, and while at USTR, she led negotiations on a variety of bilateral, regional and multilateral trade agreements, including the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) and the TransPacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement. Jennifer also chaired a number of interagency committees charged with overseeing implementation of U.S. trade agreements, as well as developing trade policies to promote clean and renewable energy technologies. When first joining USTR in 2001, Jennifer served as Director for Transatlantic Trade Issues in USTR’s Office of Europe and the Mediterranean.

Prior to joining USTR, Jennifer held several positions at the U.S. Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration (ITA), including work to coordinate ITA’s participation in multilateral standards-setting bodies, as well as multilateral rules governing chemicals and biotechnology trade. Jennifer began her career in Washington in the U.S. Senate.

Jennifer holds a Master’s degree from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University, and a Bachelor’s degree from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.  

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On Friday, June 3rd, WITA held a webinar exploring the history of the de minimis provision and its evolution and discuss the implications of legislation included in the America COMPETES Act to amend it.

Featured Speakers:

Beth Henke, Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer, AEO Inc.

Victoria Lane, Vice President Corporate Compliance, Branch Manager Portland, Coppersmith Global Logistics

Marianne Rowden, Chief Executive Officer, e-Merchants Trade Council

Brenda Smith, Global Director, Government Outreach, Expeditors; and former Executive Assistant Commissioner, Office of Trade, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)

Ben Wastler, Senior Director, International Supply Chain Policy, National Foreign Trade Council

Moderator: Scott Miller, Senior Mentor (Non-resident), Executive Education, Center for Strategic & International Studies

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

Beth Henke

Beth Henke is the Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer at American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. She directly oversees a team of seven lawyers and four non-lawyer professionals with responsibility for privacy and technology, M&A, business development, litigation, marketing, trade, government affairs, and global compliance. She also serves as a co-mentor with her General Counsel for AEO’s real estate attorney and IP attorney. In 2020, she completed the ACC’s Executive Leadership Institute, and she is currently pursuing an Executive Certification through the Wharton School’s Global CxO program.

Before joining AEO, Beth served as the Chief Compliance Officer and Vice President, Litigation for EDMC, a for-profit higher education group based in Pittsburgh, from 2014 to 2017. Beth joined EDMC to help lead the legal group tasked to resolve federal and state civil investigations as well as multiple qui tam actions. The team was able to resolve all of the matters in two years, and Beth was asked to remain at EDMC for a year to oversee implementation of the negotiated consent judgment. Prior to EDMC, Beth was a partner in Reed Smith’s Labor & Employment group and in Marcus & Shapira, a boutique firm in Pittsburgh that focused on outsourced general counsel work for a regional grocery chain.

At AEO, Beth serves as the Executive Sponsor of the REAL Black Alliance, AEO’s first Black ERG. She volunteers regularly with the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank and serves on the board of the East End Cooperative Ministry, which was founded in 1970 when local faith communities recognized that the impacts of poverty were too great for any one of them to address alone, as well as the ADL Regional Board for Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia and Western Pennsylvania, where she assists the ADL in fighting hate for good.

Beth is a proud, lifelong resident of Pittsburgh. She attended Allegheny College and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She and her husband are very recent empty-nesters, with a daughter starting her career in marketing in Denver and a son starting his sophomore year at the University of Pittsburgh.

Victoria Lane

Victoria Lane is the Vice President Corporate Compliance and Branch Manager Portland at Coppersmith Global Logistics. Victoria has been working in the Customs Brokerage and Freight Forwarding industry since 1978. Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest originating from Tacoma Wa, and has lived in Portland, Oregon for the last 50 years.

Victoria started in the industry working for an Importer, then migrated to Customs Broker in 1978, where she learned the business from the ground up in the accounting department, then moved to import documentation and away she went from that point. She started at Frank P. Dow Co., which then became F.W. Myers and then The Myers Group. She then moved in 1992 to Edward M Jones & Co where she studied and received her customs brokerage license in 1996. In 2002 Edward M. Jones & Co. became L.E. Coppersmith Inc where she is currently the Portland office Branch Manager. In 2010 she was promoted to the Corporate Compliance Manager for L.E. Coppersmith Inc.

Marianne Rowden

Marianne Rowden is the CEO and a Director of the E-Merchants Trade Council, Inc. (EMTC), a new global trade association for e-commerce entrepreneurs that was created to support simplification of trade, tax and transportation. EMTC facilitates dialogue among the E-Merchant worldwide community and global regulators. As CEO, she will be reaching out to her broad network of policymakers in the United States and at international institutions such as the World Trade Organization, World Customs Organization, the World Bank and UNCTAD to present positions that support the growth of e-commerce across all participants in the supply chain.

Ms. Rowden brings far-reaching experience in trade policy. She is recognized as representing her expansive network of unparalleled technical trade experts before congressional committees and their staff members, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the U.S. Census Bureau, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the Bureau of Industry and Security, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, and several other federal regulatory agencies.

Marianne has also collaborated with the World Customs Organization including taking on leadership roles within the Private Sector Consultative Group, serving three terms as Co-Chair of the WCO’s Work Group on E-commerce which has produced a Framework of Standards. She has strong, long term partnerships with international trade associations to align and solidify global thought leader on trade policy, and to develop many private sector standards, particularly related to online commerce. Among Ms. Rowden’s signature achievements is her international outreach to other trade association around the world, including the Export Council of Australia, ieCanada, INDEX, Japan Machinery Center for Trade and Investment. She became a founding member of the Global Shippers Alliance comprising over 25 national trade associations involved in international transport and trade.

Marianne Rowden most recently completing her tenure at AAEI on March 31, 2021. During her 12 years as President & CEO and 4 years as the Association’s General Counsel Ms. Rowden testified before Congress on trade legislation because of her extensive background from practicing law over 20 years concentrating in international trade and transportation regulatory compliance. As the CEO she was a strong advocate for the membership before regulatory bodies, coalescing and representing the technical expertise of a broad spectrum of companies. Among her signature achievements was her ability to create partnerships with like-minded associations globally to strengthen trade policy positions.

Ms. Rowden served as an Adjunct Professor at The John Marshall School of Law teaching U.S. import and export law, and speaks widely to U.S. and international audiences on trade issues, particularly the future of e-commerce at the World Trade Organization, World Customs Organization, UNCTAD, Tunisia E-Commerce High-Level Conference, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Japan Machinery Center for Trade and Investment, ieCanada, EFA European Forum for External Trade, Excise and Customs, the Council of Supply Chain Management, the Transportation Law Association, and the Transportation Law Institute.

Brenda B. Smith

Brenda B. Smith serves as the Global Director of Government Outreach at Expeditors International of Washington, Inc. She is responsible for Expeditors’ partnerships with government agencies and international organizations focused on supply chain regulation and trade facilitation.

Brenda has extensive experience in international trade and compliance and recently completed a 34-year career with the U.S. government, which included five years on Capitol Hill and responsibilities at the Department of Treasury and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

At CBP, Brenda served as the Executive Assistant Commissioner of Trade from 2014 until 2021. In this role, she led CBP’s trade mission, overseeing trade enforcement, security, and facilitation matters to enable legitimate trade, contribute to American economic prosperity, and protect against risks to public health and safety. She oversaw trade policy implementation, national compliance audits, management of trade data, and CBP’s regulatory processes for administering trade and border operations. She partnered with CBP’s IT experts to expand trade automation and analytics technologies through agile user-based processes and change management.

Brenda serves as part of Expeditors’ delegation to the World Customs Organization Private Sector Consultative Group and as a board member of the Association of Women in International Trade.

Ben Wastler

Ben Wastler is the Senior Director, International Supply Chain Policy at the National Foreign Trade Council. In this role, Ben handles customs, international trade-related regulatory, and key supply chain issues including counterfeiting, product safety, environmental sustainability, labor rights policies and illicit trade, trade facilitation, customs best practices, and other policies to support the resilience and stability of global supply chains. Ben joined the NFTC in June 2021 from the Office of Chief Counsel. Trade and Finance Section, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), in Washington, D.C., where he served as an attorney. Prior to CBP, Ben worked at Crowell & Moring LLP, where he focused on antitrust litigation. Ben started his legal career at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, in its New York and Washington, D.C. offices, where he specialized in civil litigation and anti-corruption matters.

Ben is a graduate of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, where he earned a B.S. in International Politics, and of Boston College Law School, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the International and Comparative Law Review.

Scott Miller

Scott Miller is a senior mentor (non-resident) with the Executive Education, focusing on leadership development programs for public- and private-sector executives. From 2012 until 2017, he held the William M. Scholl Chair in International Business at CSIS. The Scholl Chair focuses on key issues in the global economy, such as international trade, investment, competitiveness, and innovation. From 1997 to 2012, Mr. Miller was director for global trade policy at Procter & Gamble, a leading consumer products company. In that position, he was responsible for the full range of international trade, investment, and business facilitation issues for the company. He led many campaigns supporting U.S. free trade agreements and has been a contributor to U.S. trade and investment policy over many years. Mr. Miller was a member of the State Department’s Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy. Earlier in his career, he was a manufacturing, marketing, and government relations executive for Procter & Gamble in the United States and Canada.

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On Thursday, April 21st, WITA held a webinar discussing what successful implementation of the WTO Declaration on the Advancement of Gender Equality and Women’s Economic Empowerment Within Trade might look like, and recent initiatives to advance the interests of women in international trade.

In December, 2021 the United States announced its intention to join Joint Declaration on the Advancement of Gender Equality and Women’s Economic Empowerment Within Trade. First agreed to in 2017 by 118 WTO members in Buenos Aires, the Declaration seeks to remove barriers to, and foster, women’s economic empowerment.

Featured Speakers:

Anoush der Boghossian, Head of Trade and Gender, Gender Policy Advisor, Chair and Founder of the WTO Gender Research Hub, World Trade Organization (WTO)

Desirée LeClercq, Assistant Professor, International and Comparative Labor Law, Cornell ILR School, Associate Member of the Law Faculty, Cornell Law School

Latesha Love, Director, International Affairs and Trade, US Government Accountability Office

Moderator: Maria Luisa Boyce, Vice President, UPS Global Public Affairs

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

Anoush der Boghossian

Ms. Anoush der Boghossian is the Head of the WTO Trade and Gender Unit and the WTO Gender Policy Adviser. She was appointed as the WTO’s first trade and gender expert by former Director-General Roberto Azevêdo in 2017. She is the WTO expert on trade and gender equality and on gender equality issues more broadly. 

She is one of the Co-Authors of the WTO/World Bank report on “Women and Trade” and has published articles and working papers on trade and gender. 

She is the Founder and Chair of the WTO Gender Research Hub, a research network that fosters research and experts’ partnerships on gender equality in trade. Through the Hub, she also intends to promote research findings on trade and gender equality thus supporting governments in adopting informed policies and to establish the topic of as a recognised field of research and expertise. 

She is a recognised trainer and researcher on gender responsive trade policy, and for instance she organised a session at the Seventh Biennial Global Conference of the Society of International Economic Law (SIEL) in 2021 and presented research on “Mainstreaming Gender in Trade and Investment Agreements: Best Practice Examples & the Missing Elements”. 

Anoush is a senior staff member of the WTO with 16 years’ experience in the Organization. Prior her current responsibilities, Anoush worked as the French Language Spokesperson of the WTO, as the press officer to the former Director-General Pascal Lamy and to the former Deputy Director-General Valentine Rugwabiza, focusing on media operations in Africa. She also served as the NGO Liaison Officer of the WTO. Within these positions, she started to develop her knowledge on the links between trade gender and development, especially doing a lot of work with African media. 

Anoush began her career at the WTO in 2006 after acquiring 10 years of professional experience in the private sector, in Brussels, working on EU policies, as a public relations specialist. 

Among her educational achievements, she holds a Masters in European and International Law, and a Masters in Communications. 

Among her personal achievements, Anoush is a Member of the “Confrérie des Chevaliers du Tastevin”, Chateau Clos de Vougeot (Burgundy, France) and she is an experienced diver. 

Maria Luisa Boyce

Maria Luisa Boyce is the Vice President for International Policy for UPS Global Public Affairs. She brings over 20 years of experience and leadership in international trade, customs issues and cross-border trade. In her current role, she advocates for UPS’s priorities on Capitol Hill, supports the company’s government affairs efforts in Latin America, is part of the UPS core team leading our UPS Women Exporter Program and serves as a liaison for UPS to National Hispanic Organizations. Prior to joining UPS, Mrs. Boyce served as U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) Senior Advisor to the Commissioner for Trade and Private Sector Engagement and Director for the Office of Trade Relations. Mrs. Boyce assumed this role after serving as the Assistant Commissioner for CBP’s Office of Public Affairs. Mrs. Boyce was also the Small Business Ombudsman and Regulatory Fairness Representative for CBP, serving as a liaison between the international trading community and senior CBP managers. She is originally from Bogota, Colombia and grew up living in five different countries in Latin America before moving to the United States.

Desirée LeClercq

Desirée LeClercq is the Proskauer Employment and Labor Law Assistant Professor at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations in Ithaca, New York. She teaches international labor law, U.S. labor law and employment law. She is the author or co-author of several articles (along with book chapter contributions) exploring incoherence between international labor law and U.S. trade law and constitutional law. She is currently working with Raymond Robertson (Texas A&M) and the ILO on a collaborative project empirically examining labor provisions in trade agreements to test accusations of protectionism. Her other current projects examine gender rights in trade, map out COVID-19 recovery activities across the U.N. system, and set out the implications of USMCA on U.S. jurisprudence.

Before joining the ILR School, LeClercq was the Director for Labor Affairs at USTR, where she negotiated and enforced labor-rights commitments in U.S. trade instruments. In that capacity, she frequently traveled to SE Asia, and was involved in several U.S. inter-agency task forces on forced labor, gender rights, and capacity building. Prior to joining USTR in 2016, LeClercq was a legal officer for the ILO in Geneva, Switzerland, where she specialized in maritime labor law and trade agreements. She began her legal career as a staff attorney to the Chairman of the NLRB in 2006.

LeClercq is a 2006 graduate of the University of Texas School of Law, a 2002 graduate of Indiana University, Bloomington, and a member of the New York bar. She lives in Ithaca with her husband and rambunctious toddler.

Latesha Love

Latesha Love is a Director in GAO’s International Affairs and Trade (IAT) team. She oversees a cross-cutting portfolio examining international policy issues such as women’s rights and trade, foreign assistance for reconstruction and enhancing democracy, efforts to combat international human trafficking, and international cybersecurity.

Latesha joined GAO in August 2002. Prior to IAT, she spent several years in GAO’s Strategic Issues and Forensic Audits and Investigative Services teams leading audits on issues such as consumer financial protection, Medicare, contracting, immigration, human capital management, and intergovernmental response and recovery from catastrophic events. She has also served as a speaker at various national and international conferences on using data analytics and other leading practices to manage federal fraud risks.

Latesha earned a master’s degree in public policy from the University of Michigan, where she was also a Public Policy and International Affairs Fellow. Latesha earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from Virginia State University.

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On Thursday, April 7, WITA held a webinar discussing the war in Ukraine and its impact on global food security. 

Featured Speakers:

Beth Bechdol, Deputy Director-General, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Joseph W. Glauber, Senior Research Fellow, Markets, Trade and Institutions Division, International Food Policy Research Institute

Jason Hafemeister, Acting Deputy Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs (TFAA), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

Caitlin Welsh, Director, Global Food Security Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

Beth Bechdol is Deputy Director-General at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). In this role, she continues her service to food and agriculture – now on a global scale. Ms Bechdol is responsible for FAO’s Partnership and Outreach work, including Partnerships and UN Collaboration, Resource Mobilization and Private Sector Partnerships, South-South and Triangular Cooperation. She also leads programmes in the area of Plant Production and Protection and oversees FAO’s main technical advisory committee on agriculture, the Committee on Agriculture (COAG) as well as the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) Secretariat. 

Before joining FAO, Ms Bechdol was President and CEO of AgriNovus Indiana, the Midwestern state’s economic development initiative focused on advancing the agbioscience sector and developing 21st century talent. Prior to her leadership of AgriNovus, Ms Bechdol was Director of agribusiness strategies at Indianapolis-based law firm Ice Miller LLP where she helped build the firm’s dedicated legal practice to food and agribusiness clients. She also was the former Deputy Director of the Indiana State Department of Agriculture. 

Ms Bechdol’s dedication to public service in agriculture and her extensive trade and farm policy experience started in Washington, D.C. where she served in key roles as Chief of Staff at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and as Economist on the Senate Agriculture Committee. 

She began her career in the Washington office of Informa Economics. As the first female Vice President in the firm, she assisted clients in understanding critical food and agriculture issues such as global trade negotiations, federal farm policy, technology advancements, farm structure, risk management tools, among other major trends. She also provided market information expertise to several international development projects in Egypt, the Republic of North Macedonia and Ukraine. 

Ms Bechdol excels at building unconventional alliances and connecting people. She has had significant roles on boards and commissions, including the National FFA Board of Trustees, the Purdue Research Foundation and the Farm Foundation Round Table. 

Ms Bechdol was raised on a multi-generation family grain farm in rural Indiana. She received her bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University in international law and international affairs, and completed her master’s degree at Purdue University in agricultural economics.

Joseph W. Glauber is a Senior Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington, DC where his areas of interest are price volatility, global grain reserves, crop insurance and trade. Prior to joining IFPRI, Glauber spent over 30 years at the U.S. Department of Agriculture including as Chief Economist from 2008 to 2014. As Chief Economist, he was responsible for the Department’s agricultural forecasts and projections, oversaw climate, energy and regulatory issues, and served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation.

From 2007-2009, Glauber was the Special Doha Agricultural Envoy at the office of the U.S. Trade Representative where he served as chief agricultural negotiator in the Doha talks. He served as economic adviser at the so-called Blair House agreements leading to the completion of the Uruguay Round negotiations. He is the author of numerous studies on crop insurance, disaster policy and U.S. farm policy.

Dr. Glauber received his Ph.D. in agricultural economics from the University of Wisconsin in 1984 and holds an AB in anthropology from the University of Chicago. In 2012, he was elected Fellow of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.

Jason Hafemeister is the Acting Deputy Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign AgriculturalAffairs and the Trade Counsel to the Secretary at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). In this role, he advises the Secretary and the Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs on agricultural trade policy. He has been involved in agricultural farm and trade policy for over 30 years, including almost 25 at USDA and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. Jason grew up on California’s scenic central coast. He received a bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley, a master’s degree from the University of California at San Diego, and a law degree from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. He is married with two children. Before that, he used to enjoy reading and sport.

Caitlin Welsh is the director of the Global Food Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), where she provides insights and policy solutions to global and U.S. food security challenges. She brings over a decade of U.S. government experience to this role. She served most recently in the National Security Council and National Economic Council as director of global economic engagement, where she coordinated U.S. policy in the G7 and G20. Prior to the White House, Ms. Welsh spent over seven years in the Department of State’s Office of Global Food Security, including as acting director, offering guidance to the secretary of state on global food security and its relationship to climate change, urbanization, and conflict. Ms. Welsh served as a presidential management fellow at the U.S. African Development Foundation and as a Peace Corps volunteer in Morocco. She has testified before Congress on food security and climate change, and her analysis has been featured in The Economist, Foreign Policy, BBC, and other outlets. Ms. Welsh received her BA from the University of Virginia and MPA from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.

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On Thursday, March 31, WITA held a webinar discussing what the new sanctions on Russia means for the re-ordering of trading relationships and the multilateral trading system – including removal of MFN by the US, EU and G7.

Featured Speakers:

Simon J. Evenett, Professor of International Trade and Economic Development, University of St. Gallen; Founder, St. Gallen Endowment for Prosperity Through Trade

Cecilia Malmström, Senior Advisor, Covington & Burling LLP; Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics ; former European Commissioner for Trade

Professor Douglas Irwin, John French Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College and Author of Clashing over Commerce: A History of US Trade Policy

Ambassador Rufus Yerxa, Senior Advisor, McLarty Associates; former Deputy United States Trade Representative and former Deputy Director-General of the WTO

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

Simon Evenett is a Professor of International Trade and Economic Development at the University of St. Gallen. He specialises in how governments tilt the commercial playing field in favour of local firms. At the start of the Global Financial Crisis Simon created the Global Trade Alert initiative, the leading independent monitor of protectionism and commercial policy choice based at the University of St Gallen.

Simon regularly engages with private sector practitioners, government officials and other thought leaders. He has taught at the Said Business School at the University of Oxford, the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan (where he was a Visiting Professor of Corporate Strategy three times), and Rutgers University. In addition, Prof. Evenett has served as a World Bank official twice, has been a Non-Resident Senior Fellow in the Economics Studies programme of the Brookings Institution, and a member of the UK Competition Commission. Recently, he was the DLA Piper Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Carey School of Business, Johns Hopkins University. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University and a B.A. (Hons) in Economics from the University of Cambridge. Simon has written over 200 articles, book chapters, and volumes. He is regularly quoted in the international media

Cecilia Malmström is a senior advisor at Covington & Burling’s Brussels office. She has devoted the better part of her career to global affairs and international relations and has extensive experience with multilateral leadership and cooperation. Cecilia, a non-lawyer, served as European commissioner for trade from 2014 to 2019 and as European commissioner for home affairs from 2010 to 2014. She was first elected as a member of the European Parliament in 1999, serving until 2006, and was minister for EU affairs in the Swedish government from 2006 to 2010.

As European commissioner for trade, Cecilia represented the European Union in the World Trade Organization (WTO) and other international trade bodies. She was responsible for negotiating bilateral trade agreements with key countries, including agreements with Canada, Japan, Mexico, Singapore, Vietnam, and the four founding Mercosur countries.

Cecilia holds a Ph.D. in political science from the department of political science of the University of Gothenburg.

Douglas Irwin is John French Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College. He is the author of Clashing over Commerce: A History of U.S. Trade Policy (University of Chicago Press, 2017), which The Economist and Foreign Affairs selected as one of their Best Books of the Year.

He is also the author of Free Trade Under Fire (Princeton University Press, fifth edition 2020), Trade Policy Disaster: Lessons from the 1930s (MIT Press, 2012), Peddling Protectionism: Smoot-Hawley and the Great Depression (Princeton University Press, 2011), The Genesis of the GATT (Cambridge University Press, 2008, co-authored with Petros Mavroidis and Alan Sykes), Against the Tide: An Intellectual History of Free Trade (Princeton University Press, 1996), and many articles on trade policy and economic history in books and professional journals.

He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He worked on trade policy issues while on the staff of President Ronald Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisers and later worked in the International Finance Division at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington, D.C. Before joining Dartmouth, Irwin taught at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.

Ambassador Rufus Yerxa served as Deputy U.S. Trade Representative under two Administrations and spent more than a decade as Deputy Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO). He has also served in the private sector as a trade lawyer and as head of a leading business association in Washington. He has been a prominent figure in international trade policy for more than four decades. His areas of expertise include the functioning of the WTO system and other international agreements, bilateral and regional economic relations, international investment matters and U.S. trade law.

Ambassador Yerxa began his government career as a lawyer with the U.S. International Trade Commission before joining the staff of the Committee on Ways and Means of the U.S. House of Representatives, where he served as Staff Director of its Subcommittee on Trade.

From 1989 to 1995 he served as Deputy U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) with the rank of Ambassador, first as head of USTR’s Permanent Mission to the GATT in Geneva under President George H.W. Bush and subsequently as Washington Deputy during the Clinton Administration. He was instrumental in negotiations to replace GATT with the WTO in 1995 and to create the original NAFTA accord (now USMCA).

After leaving government service he practiced law for a major U.S. firm in Brussels. In 2002 he was appointed to serve as Deputy Director General of the WTO. During his long tenure he helped to broaden its membership and strengthen various aspects of its rulemaking function.

From 2016 to 2021, he was President of the National Foreign Trade Council (NFTC), a Washington-based industry association focused on expanding global markets for U.S. companies and strengthening the rule of law in world trade.

He was a Visiting Professor and Adjunct Professor with the Middlebury Institute for International Studies from 2013 to 2018, where he taught courses on international trade and the WTO system.

Ambassador Yerxa is a native of Washington State. He holds a BA from the University of Washington, a JD from the Seattle University and an LLB in International Law from the University of Cambridge.

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On Wednesday, November 3, WITA and the Institute for International Economic Policy at George Washington University discussed the potential for the UK and China to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).

WITA Webinar Featuring:

The Honorable Tim Groser, former Ambassador of New Zealand to the United States and the WTO, and New Zealand’s former Minister of Trade

Wendy Cutler, Vice President, Asia Society Policy Institute; former Acting Deputy United States Trade Representative

Shanker Singham, CEO, Competere; former Advisor, UK Secretary of State for International Trade; Member, DIT Trade and Agriculture Commission; Academic Fellow, Institute of Economic Affairs

Moderator: Jay Shambaugh, Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Director of the Institute for International Economic Policy at George Washington University, and former Member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

Ambassador Tim Groser has since 2008 served as New Zealand’s Minister of Trade, Minister for Climate Change Issues and Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Prior to his appointment as a Member of Parliament in 2005, Mr Groser held a range of senior trade and economic roles within the New Zealand civil service, including Chief Negotiator for New Zealand during the Uruguay Round from 1990 to 1994, Principal Economic Adviser to the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade from 1997-1999, and New Zealand Ambassador to the WTO from 2002-2005.

From 1994 to 1997 Mr Groser served as New Zealand Ambassador to Indonesia and from 1992-2002 was Chief Executive of the Asia-NZ Foundation.

This includes extensive experience within the GATT and WTO where he was appointed to a number of significant roles, including as Chair of the Rules and Agriculture Negotiations. In both international trade as well as a range of other international negotiations, Mr Groser has demonstrated his ability in promoting consensus solutions to a wide array of complex issues.

Mr Groser has throughout his career demonstrated his intimate appreciation of the multilateral trading system and remains committed to ensuring the WTO continues to play its essential role for the future.

Wendy Cutler is Vice President at the Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI) and the managing director of the Washington, D.C. office. In these roles, she focuses on building ASPI’s presence in the nation’s capital and on leading initiatives that address challenges related to trade, investment, and innovation, as well as women’s empowerment in Asia. She joined ASPI following an illustrious career of nearly three decades as a diplomat and negotiator in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), where she also served as Acting Deputy U.S. Trade Representative. During her USTR career, she worked on a range of bilateral, regional, and multilateral trade negotiations and initiatives, including the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, U.S.-China negotiations, and the WTO Financial Services negotiations. She has published a series of ASPI papers on the Asian trade landscape and serves as a regular media commentator on trade and investment developments in Asia and the world.

Shanker Singham leads the International Trade and Competition Unit at the Institute of Economic Affairs. He is Chairman and CEO of Competere Group. He was formerly a Director at the Legatum Institute and the managing director of the Competitiveness and Enterprise Cities project at Babson Global. The Competitiveness and Enterprise Development (CED) Project at Babson Global works with developers and governments in developing countries to put in place the necessary regulatory environment and infrastructure that will spur economic growth through the creation of Enterprise Cities. 

As one of the world’s leading trade and competition lawyers, he has worked on the privatisation of the UK electricity market, the transition of the Soviet, Central and Eastern European economies and the apertura in Latin America. He has worked on the accession of Poland and Hungary to the EU and the WTO accessions of a number of countries, including China and Russia. He led the global market access/WTO practices of Steel Hector and Davis in Miami, and Squire Sanders in Washington, DC. He has lived in London, Hong Kong, Miami, Washington, D.C., and Boston. 

Jay Shambaugh is a Professor of Economics and International Affairs and Director of the Institute for International Economic Policy at George Washington University. Shambaugh’s area of research is macroeconomics and international economics. His work includes analysis of the interaction of exchange rate regimes with monetary policy, capital flows, and trade flows as well as studies of international reserves holdings, country balance sheet exchange rate exposure, the cross-country impact of fiscal policy, the crisis in the euro area, and regional growth disparities.

He has had two stints in public service. He served as a Member of the White House Council of Economic Advisors from 2015-2017. Earlier, he served on the staff of the CEA as a Senior Economist for International Economics and then as the Chief Economist. He also spent 3 years as the Director of the Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution. He is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the NBER and Non-Resident Senior Fellow in Economic Studies at Brookings.

Prior to joining the faculty at George Washington, Shambaugh taught at Georgetown and Dartmouth and was a visiting scholar at the IMF. Shambaugh received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California at Berkeley, an M.A. from the Fletcher School at Tufts, and a B.A. from Yale University.

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On Thursday, October 7, we welcomed members of the Board and Advisory Council of Listening for America, as they presented key findings of their report on the views of Americans about international trade and globalization. Since 2018, Listening for America has engaged a diverse cross-section of Americans in informal conversations and focus groups to discuss their experiences with international trade and globalization. Panelists shared key findings of the report and discussed ways in which policy makers can most effectively address the needs of communities in today’s globalized economy. 

WITA Webinar Featuring: 

Ambassador Peter Allgeier, President, Nauset Global LLC; former Deputy U.S. Trade Representative 

Kira Alvarez, Vice President, ViacomCBS

Catherine A. Novelli, President, Listening for America; Senior Advisor, Shearwater Global

Bruce Stokes, Executive Director Transatlantic Task Force and non-resident fellow, German Marshall Fund of the United States

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

Ambassador Peter Allgeier has over forty years of experience in negotiating international trade and investment issues, in both government and the private sector. At the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, he served as the Deputy USTR and as U.S. Ambassador to the World Trade Organization (WTO), also serving twice (2005, 2009) as Acting US Trade Representative. Before his appointment as Deputy USTR, he served in a series of senior negotiating positions covering Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and the Western Hemisphere.  

From 2012-2016, Ambassador Allgeier served as President of the Coalition of Service Industries (CSI), representing the international trade and investment interests of the American service economy. including major international companies from the banking, insurance, telecommunications, information technology, express delivery, audiovisual, energy services, and other service industries. Prior to his leadership of CSI, he served as President of C&M International, a trade consulting firm based in Washington, DC. 

He is the recipient of the Distinguished Service Award from the Washington International Trade Association (WITA) and the Woodrow Wilson Distinguished Alumnus Award from Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).

He has a Ph.D. in International Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; an MA in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University, and an A.B. in International Relations from Brown University. 

Kira Alvarez is Vice President of Government Relations at ViacomCBS. Before joining Viacom CBS, Ms. Alvarez served as Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Intellectual Property and Chief Negotiator for IP Enforcement, in the Obama administration, responsible for bilateral IP negotiations between the US and China, and served as the U.S. co-chair of the IP Committee of the US-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade (JCCT). She negotiated the IP chapters of several US Free Trade Agreements, including those with Chile, Central America (CAFTA) and Morocco. Ms. Alvarez is on the Board of Directors of Listening for America, and helped conduct the listening sessions that are the basis for the group’s report and recommendations. Ms. Alvarez’s work in the private sector includes representing the American Bar Association’s Section of Intellectual Property Rights, and she has also worked for AbbVie, Time Warner and Eli Lilly.

Ms. Alvarez was born and raised bilingual in Miami’s Little Havana. She has a Juris Doctor and Master of Science in Foreign Service (JD/MSFS) from Georgetown University and Bachelor of Arts from Harvard College, where she was Editor in Chief of the Harvard International Review.

Catherine A. Novelli is the President of Listening for America, a non-partisan, non-profit organization dedicated to forging a new vision of U.S. international trade engagement. She is a Fellow at the Center for New American Security and a Senior Advisor to Shearwater Global. She is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. She previously served as Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment (2014-2017) where she promoted economic reform and open markets for U.S. products and services. As Under Secretary, Ambassador Novelli spearheaded the first-of- its-kind Our Ocean movement, which, during her tenure, resulted in $10 billion for Ocean conservation and has become a continuing global effort. She also launched the Global Connect Initiative, an innovative partnership with governments, multilateral development banks and the private sector to connect 1.5 billion people to the Internet. 

Novelli spent seven years as Vice President, Worldwide Government Affairs at Apple Inc where she headed a multinational international team responsible for Apple’s government relations and public policy. Prior to her position at Apple, she was a partner in the law firm of Mayer Brown International. She had a long career at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, rising to Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Europe & the Mediterranean, where she coordinated U.S. trade and investment policy for Europe, Russia, Central Asia, the Middle East and Northern Africa. She took a leading role in many of the most important U.S. trade negotiations in those regions, including free trade agreements with Jordan, Morocco and Bahrain, and Oman. As the Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia, she negotiated most of the bilateral trade and investment agreements that underpin our economic relationship in that region. 

Novelli currently serves on the Boards of the National Wildlife Federation, the Northern Virginia Community College and the Advisory Board of the Pristine Seas Initiative of the National Geographic Society. She was also named an Ocean Elder.  

Novelli has received numerous honors and awards, including the State Department Distinguished Service Award and the International Trade Woman of the Year Award. She is a graduate of Tufts University, holds a law degree from the University of Michigan and a Master of Laws from University of London. 

Bruce Stokes is Executive Director Transatlantic Task Force and non-resident fellow, German Marshall Fund of the United States. Previously, he was the director of Global Economic Attitudes at the Pew Research Center in Washington, DC, where he helped create and author Pew’s annual global attitudes survey. He is a former international economics correspondent for the National Journal, a Washington-based public policy magazine. He is also a former senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he is a member, and is currently an associate fellow at Chatham House.

He is co-author of the book America Against the World: How We Are Different and Why We Are Disliked (Times Books, 2006), and author of numerous German Marshall Fund and Council on Foreign Relations studies.

Stokes is a graduate of the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and the School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

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