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Grant D. Aldonas is a partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld and focuses on international trade and investment, including international trade policy. He is also the founder and managing director of Split Rock International, which is an international consulting firm offering strategic guidance on trade and investment issues to companies, governments, and international organizations. Prior to joining Akin Gump, Aldonas served in the Bush administration as the U.S. Department of Commerce's undersecretary for international trade. As head of the department’s International Trade Administration (ITA), he was responsible for advising the Secretary of Commerce on international trade and economic issues, and managed 2,400 ITA employees. Aldonas was a leading voice for the U.S. manufacturing sector, serving as the executive director of the President’s Export Council, on the Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee, and on the board of directors of the U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation. Aldonas has also served as Chief International Trade Counsel to the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, advising the chairman on international trade and economic matters before the committee. During Aldonas’ tenure, Congress passed a number of significant trade bills, including the Trade and Development Act of 2000, Permanent Normal Trade Relations for China, legislation replacing the Foreign Sales Corporation provisions of the Internal Revenue Code, and a series of tariff bills. Before entering public service, Grant spent more than 12 years in private practice focusing on international trade, investment, and litigation. During that time, he also served as counsel to the Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform and as an advisor to the Commission on U.S.-Pacific Trade and Investment. Aldonas also served as director of South American and Caribbean affairs in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and as a Special Assistant to the Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs. Grant is co-chair of a project on transatlantic leadership and the global economy sponsored by the Atlantic Council. He is an adjunct professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center in affiliation with the Institute for International Economic Law, teaching courses on trade and development and the resolution of international trade disputes. He is also a member of the board of the Institute for International Economic Law and serves on the board of advisors to the University of Minnesota Law School. Grant received a bachelor's degree in 1975 and a law degree in 1979 from the University of Minnesota. He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar. Stanton Anderson is currently senior counsel to the president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce where he leads an effort on greater international regulatory cooperation and a broad-based coalition working to pass legislation dealing with attorney-client privileges.Anderson remains chairman of Global USA, Inc., a consulting company he founded. Global USA is involved in representing a number of domestic and international interests. Anderson has practiced law in Washington, DC since 1969, interrupted in the early 1970s by his service in government – first at the White House and then at the U.S. Department of State. In 1981, Anderson founded his own law firm, Anderson, Hibey, Nauheim and Blair, and in 1995, he joined the law firm of McDermott, Will, & Emery. While a partner there, he served as executive vice president and chief legal officer of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, where he set the Chamber’s legal reform strategy. He also chaired the successful effort to pass class-action reform legislation. Stanton also oversaw the National Chamber Litigation Center, the public policy legal arm of the U.S. Chamber; the Institute for Legal Reform, a Chamber affiliate dedicated to restoring fairness, efficiency, and consistency to the U.S. civil justice system; and the Chamber’s Office of General Counsel. Anderson's has served in government since 1972. He served in the White House during the Nixon Administration and as deputy assistant secretary of state for congressional relations under Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. He has been involved in managing a number of Republican conventions and served as counsel to the Reagan-Bush Campaign in 1980. He also held a senior position in the presidential transition of that year. Anderson has received a number of presidential appointments, including membership on the President’s Advisory Committee on Trade Negotiations and the Presidential Commission on Personnel Interchange. He chaired the U.S. delegation to the United Nations conference on new and renewable energy resources in 1981. Anderson currently serves on the board of directors of Global USA, Inc., the National Chamber Litigation Center, the Institute for Legal Reform, CIPE, and the board of advisors of Westmont College. Anderson also served on the board of directors of two public companies: CB Richard Ellis and Aegis Communications Group. Anderson graduated from Westmont College where he was a small college All-American basketball player, and he received his law degree from Willamette University where he was a member of the law review.
Until January 2009, Barrett was U.S. Ambassador to Finland. Prior to Finland she served on the corporate boards of Raytheon, Exponent, and The Mayo Clinic, and was a trustee of Aerospace Corporation and Thunderbird School of Global Management. She was Chairman of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy and a member of the Smithsonian National Board, Space Foundation Board, Horatio Alger Association Board and the Senior Advisory Board at Harvard’s Institute of Politics. As a member of the U.S.-Afghan Women’s Council, Barrett initiated a mentoring, development, and training program for Afghan businesswomen called Project Artemis. Earlier, Barrett was Senior Advisor to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations in New York City. She was Valley Bank of Arizona’s founding Chairman as well as President and CEO of the American Management Association, the world’s largest provider of management education, leadership training, and business publishing. She taught leadership as a Fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard’s Kennedy School. Barrett was a member of the Defense Business Board and Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services. Barrett served as an executive/officer of two Fortune 500 corporations, Vice Chairman of the United States Civil Aeronautics Board, partner in a large Phoenix law firm and Deputy Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration. Barrett was President of the International Women’s Forum and the first woman Republican candidate for Governor of Arizona. She was the national Chairman of the U.S. Secretary of Commerce’s Export Conference in Washington, D.C. In her community, she was President of the Arizona World Affairs Council, Arizona World Trade Association and the Economic Club of Phoenix. She earned her bachelor, master, and law degrees at Arizona State University (ASU). Honorary doctorates have been conferred by ASU, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Thunderbird, and the University of South Carolina. Barrett has been recognized with the Horatio Alger Award, Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship, and Sandra Day O’Connor Excellence Award from the American Bar Association. An instrument rated pilot, Barrett has flown internationally in civilian and military aircraft. She climbed Tanzania's Mt. Kilimanjaro in August 2007 and bicycled 900 kilometers around Finland while Ambassador. She and her husband, Craig, live in Arizona. As senior vice president of the international affairs at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Myron Brilliant is responsible for driving the global business strategy of the U.S. Chamber. He represents the U.S. Chamber before foreign government and business leaders and oversees a team of policy analysts committed to expanding global commercial engagement. Brilliant previously served as vice president for Asia where he developed the largest Asia policy shop in Washington, D.C. He has led numerous broad-based business coalitions working on strengthening U.S.-China relations and promoting free trade agreements with Australia, Singapore, and South Korea.The January 2007 Washingtonian magazine dubbed Brilliant a key player in its “Who’s Who Guide” of influential leaders on U.S.-China economic policy. Brilliant is frequently quoted in the media and is a regular guest on CNBC, CNN, and other news programs. Brilliant serves as president of the U.S.-Korea Business Council, an organization committed to strengthening U.S.-Korea economic ties. He also serves on the boards of the U.S.-New Zealand Council and the U.S.-Pakistan Business Council and on the advisory boards of Gale International and the Asia Society’s Washington Office. Before joining the Chamber in 1994, Brilliant was an attorney with Stewart and Stewart in Washington, DC, where he specialized in international trade and published a number of articles on international trade issues.Brilliant received his law degree from American University’s Washington College of Law and is bachelor's degree in government and politics from the University of Maryland. He is married and has three children. Harry Clark is a public policy and strategic communications advisor to companies, trade associations, and political and business leaders. His distinctive expertise is in helping companies develop strategies and deploy resources to successfully manage complex public policy issues, strategic transactions, or organization-threatening crises. Clark conducts advisory engagements through Stanwich Group LLC, his Greenwich, Connecticut, based consultancy. He also serves, of counsel, to the Brunswick Group, the pre-eminent, independent, international public affairs consultancy headquartered in London with offices in Beijing, Berlin, Hamburg, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, New York, Paris, Stockholm, and Washington, DC. Harry Clark is the architect of the recently established Private Equity Council, a Washington-based trade association serving the interests of the world’s largest private equity firms and their investors. Clark currently serves as public policy consultant to Google, assisting the company as it builds an international public policy and government relations operation. Clark also advises Freddie Mac as it addresses a range of governance, accounting, and political issues in a dramatically altered federal regulatory and legislative environment. Clark advised Worldcom/MCI and the MCI Creditors’ Committee on strategies to accelerate MCI’s emergence from bankruptcy and removal from the U.S. Government’s General Services Administration (GSA) suspended list, thereby allowing MCI once again to contract with agencies and departments of the United States Government. And Clark served as counselor to Ambassador Robert B. Zoellick and the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR). He advised USTR on strategic political issues and on alliance building with the U.S. business, trade association and non-governmental organization communities. Clark retired in 2001 as managing partner of Clark & Weinstock, a public policy and communications consulting firm he founded in 1987. Clark & Weinstock was acquired by the Omnicom Group, Inc. (NYSE: OMC) in 1996.During the mid ‘80s, Clark was an executive with international advertising agencies Young & Rubicam and Bozell and served as worldwide advertising group director for Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. Clark currently serves on the board of directors of the Sound Shore Fund (a $3 billion mutual fund) and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. He also serves on the executive committees of the boards of the Partnership for a Drug-Free America, CIPE, and Homes for Working Families, as well as on the Public Affairs Committee of the U.S. Tennis Association. Peter Cleveland is vice president of legal and corporate affairs and director of global public policy at Intel. Supervising a team of roughly 70 attorneys and policy professionals worldwide in Intel's Washington, D.C.office, Cleveland serves as Intel's liaison to Congress, the Executive Branch, and other U.S. governmental agencies. He also represents Intel on the boards of various trade associations and related organizations, including the Information Technology Industry Council, the CIPE, and the National Committee on United States-China Relations. Global public policy is responsible for establishing favorable legal, regulatory, statutory and market rules and policies to enable Intel's continued global business success. Cleveland joined Intel in November, 2008 from the office of California Senator Dianne Feinstein, where he served as chief of staff. Previously, he advised a member of the Senate Finance and Foreign Relations committees and served as a corporate and government relations attorney for a leading international law firm. Cleveland received his law degree from Georgetown University in 1997 and a bachelor's degree from Columbia University in 1987. He is a member of the New York and the District of Columbia Bars and the Council on Foreign Relations. Lynda Y. de la Viña was named dean and Peter Flawn professor of economics at the University of Texas at San Antonio (USTA) College of Business in July of 2005. She also leads the Center for Global Entrepreneurship as its executive director. De la Viña is the first woman to serve as the UTSA College of Business dean and the only female Hispanic business dean in the University of Texas system. She was also the first Mexican-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in economics in the United States. Recent honors include being named one of the 100 Most Influential Hispanics by Hispanic Business magazine, and receiving both the Ford Salute to Education Award as well as the Jessie and Sue Oppenheimer Award of Excellence. De la Viña was an inaugural member of the advisory committee for the State of Texas Emerging Technology Fund, a $200 million fund created to foster innovation, research, and job creation in emerging high-tech industries. She also completed a prestigious Kellogg Leadership Fellows Program. De la Viña has led a distinguished career in academia and government service. The first Mexican-American woman at the secretarial level of the U.S. Treasury, de la Viña served as deputy assistant secretary for economic policy from 1998-2001. While her work portfolio was expansive dealing with domestic and international economic policy issues, she led U.S. Treasury teams on issues of personal commitment such as financial literacy, entrepreneurship development, and U.S.-Mexico border development. Following her role at the U.S. Treasury, she was named associate dean of the Graduate Division of Business and Management and chair of the Department of Finance and International Business at Johns Hopkins University. Prior to her career in Washington, DC, de la Viña served 19 years at UTSA in ascending positions of administrative responsibility. She joined the Department of Economics faculty in 1982 and was named executive director of the Institute for Studies in Business in 1985. She served as associate dean of graduate studies and research in the college from 1993-1998. She has co-founded three companies: Nightwave Records , Operational Technologies Corporation (OpTech), and Pronucleotein Biotechnologies. Under her tenure, OpTech rose from a small incubator operation in downtown San Antonio to one of the largest minority-owned businesses in San Antonio. She continues to serve on the board of directors of OpTech. She also serves on the CIPE board, and the boards of the Texas Business Hall of Fame and the Alamo Public Telecommunications Council. Dr. de la Viña received her master’s degree and doctorate in economics from Rice University and her bachelor’s in government and economics from UT-Pan American. Thomas J. Donohue is president and CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Since assuming his position in 1997, Donohue has built the U.S. Chamber into a lobbying and political force with expanded influence across the globe. Donohue established the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform (ILR), which has won significant legal reforms in the courts, at the state and federal levels, and in elections for state attorneys general and Supreme Court judges.The U.S. Chamber’s lobbyists, policy experts, and communicators have helped secure many legislative victories, including major tax cuts, more sensible workplace and environmental regulations, and increased funding for transportation. The U.S. Chamber has advanced the business argument on outsourcing and the need for balance in applying new capital markets and accounting rules, among other issues. On the international front, the chamber has become a leader in knocking down trade barriers, winning new free trade agreements, and fighting protectionism both at home and abroad. The chamber has also emerged as a major player in election politics, helping elect congressional pro-business candidates through financial support and voter activism and turnout generated through the chamber’s grassroots organization, VoteForBusiness.com. Since the begining of Donohue's tenure, the chamber has tripled its annual revenues to $160 million. In addition, Donohue launched a $200 million capital campaign to help secure the chamber’s financial future. Previously, Donohue served for 13 years as president and chief executive officer of the American Trucking Associations, the national organization of the trucking industry.Donohue serves on two corporate boards of directors: Union Pacific Corporation and Sunrise Senior Living Corporation. He is a member of the President's Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations. Born in New York City in 1938, Donohue earned a bachelor’s degree from St. John’s University and a master’s degree in business administration from Adelphi University. He also holds honorary doctorate degrees from Adelphi, St. John’s, and Marymount universities. Donohue and his wife, Liz, live in Potomac, Maryland. They have three sons. Joseph M. Ha is a professor emeritus of international affairs at Lewis & Clark College, chairing the department from 1971-1994. Ha is a professor of the Institute of U.S. and Canada Studies, the Russian Academy of Sciences, and an adjunct professor of international management in the Oregon Joint Professional Schools of Business of Oregon Higher Education System. Ha is an expert in global business and economy, especially in business negotiations. He speaks several languages and is an avid world traveler. He is a prolific writer and lecturer, having published and edited numerous books and articles. He is a consultant to both public and private sectors, and serves on numerous boards. Ha received a bachelor's degree in international relations and economics from University of Washington, a certificate in Russian studies from the Harriman Institute of Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in international relations from Columbia University. Ha holds honorary professorships from Khabarovsk State Pedagogical University, Russia; Yanbian University, China; and Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, Japan. He has been awarded a doctorate of political science honoris causa from the Institute of U.S. and Canada Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences; doctorate of education honoris causa from Khabarovsk State Pedagogical University, Russia; doctorate of literature honoris causa, Far Eastern State University, Vladivostok, Russia; and a doctorate of law honoris causa, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea. Michael Hershman is an internationally recognized expert on matters relating to transparency, accountability, governance, and security. The Fairfax Group, founded in 1983, has been retained by governments, corporations, and international financial institutions to assist on matters relating to misconduct of senior-level officials or entities with which they do business.Fairfax has assisted governments from Chile to India on corruption investigations of senior-level officials and has served as the appointed monitor of companies that have violated laws, rules, or regulations. Immediately prior to founding The Fairfax Group, Hershman served as deputy auditor general for the Foreign Assistance Program of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), where he led investigations and audits of major U.S. funded projects overseas, and was responsible for worldwide security at all foreign USAID missions. Hershman was awarded the Superior Honor Medal for his service at USAID. Hershman began his career in intelligence and investigations in Europe during the late 1960s as a special agent with U.S. military intelligence, specializing in counter-terrorism After leaving the military, he moved to investigations of government corruption and financial fraud for the New York State Attorney General's Office and the Office of the Mayor of New York City. Later, he served as a senior staff investigator for the Senate Watergate Committee and as chief investigator for a joint Presidential and Congressional commission reviewing state and federal laws on wiretapping and electronic surveillance.Hershman then joined the Federal Election Commission, where as chief investigator and director of security he was responsible for audits and investigations of candidates and their campaign committees. Hershman also served as deputy staff director for the Subcommittee on International Organizations of the U.S. House of Representatives, which was responsible for legislation and oversight relating to international banks and other U.S.-supported international organizations, such as the United Nations. In 1993, along with Peter Eigen, Hershman co-founded Transparency International, the largest independent, not-for-profit coalition promoting transparency and accountability in business and in government. For the past six years he has served Interpol as a member of the International Group of Experts on Corruption and for the past 12 years on the board of the International Anti-corruption Conference Committee. Ambassador Richard N. HolwillRichard Holwill is vice president of public policy at Alticor in Washington, D.C. – the parent company of the Amway Corporation – where he manages worldwide government affairs efforts. He chairs a trade advisory committee for U.S. Trade Representative and the Asia Task Force at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. He has testified before Congress on international trade issues and U.S. policy toward China. Holwill served to the rank of ambassador in the U.S. Department of State and has extensive experience in Asia, Latin America, Europe, and the countries of the former Soviet Union. He has published two books on public policy and numerous articles in major publications. His areas of expertise include international trade, international investment disputes, and the resolution of business problems in foreign markets Julia K. Hughes is the president of International Development Systems, Inc., (IDS) which has a proven international reputation as the resource for companies, trade associations, and countries when they need the latest information regarding trade statistics and government regulation of textile and apparel products. Additionally, Hughes serves as vice president for the international trade and government relations for the United States Association of Textiles and Apparel, where she leads the development of new strategies to liberalize trade in textiles and apparel. Prior to joining IDS, Hughes was divisional vice president of government relations for the Associated Merchandising Corporation, the largest retail merchandising, marketing and consulting organization in the world. Since 1982, Hughes has represented the interests of textile and apparel importers on quota and textile issues to government officials, both in the United States and overseas. She has testified before Congress and the Executive Branch on textile trade issues. Hughes is also recognized as an expert in textile and apparel issues and is a frequent speaker at international conferences, including the Apparel Sourcing Show, Foreign Service Institute, Foreign Trade Association, National Association of Manufacturers, USIA's Worldnet, the International Textiles and Clothing Bureau, Society for International Development and others. Hughes also served as the first president of the International Organization of Women in International Trade and is one of the founders of the Washington Chapter of Women in International Trade, receiving the Outstanding Woman in International Trade award in 1992. Hughes' other affiliations include member and officer of the Cotton Board and Cotton Board Executive Committee as well as member of the Capitol Forum. Hughes has an master's degree in international studies from the Johns Hopkins' School of Advanced International Studies and a bachelor's degree in foreign service from Georgetown University. Karen KerriganKaren Kerrigan has developed positive relationships with individuals in media, government, policy and advocacy organizations, and the private sector that have led to key reforms and initiatives to help America's entrepreneurial sector. In 1994, Kerrigan founded the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council, a prominent and respected advocacy and research organization with more than 70,000 members. She is president and CEO of Women Entrepreneurs Inc., a non-profit business association that helps women business owners succeed through education, networking, and advocacy. Her commentary, analysis, and written work have appeared in many of the nation's leading newspapers. Since 1995, she has written a regular column for the American City Business Journals – an influential network of weekly business newspapers in 50 major markets. She writes the Beltway Small Business Report for FoxNews.com.Kerrigan is a native of New York, and holds a bachelor's degree in Political Science from Cortland College (SUNY). She resides in Oakton, VA. Gregori Lebedev currently serves as a senior advisor to the Robertson Foundation for Government, a private family fund dedicated to providing support to talented men and women wishing to pursue governmental careers in national security and international affairs; and as a senior advisor to Adelphi Capital, LLC, a Washington, D.C.-based private investment bank that provides advisory services and support to companies and private equity investors. He also undertakes special international projects, involving trade, economic development, and global corporate governance. Before joining the Robertson Foundation, Lebedev served as president and CEO of the American Chemistry Council (ACC), where he represented the domestic and international interests of the $1.7 trillion global chemical and plastics industry – the third largest manufacturing industry in the United States. Prior to the ACC, Lebedev held a unique portfolio at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. During his nearly five years of service, he was the chamber’s CEO and executive vice president for international policy and national security affairs. In addition to running the day-to-day operations, he was managing director of the National Chamber Foundation, the public policy think tank, and president of the Center for Corporate Citizenship, a governance and philanthropic resource of the business community. Earlier in his career, Lebedev was senior partner of The Hay Group, then one of the largest international management consulting firms. He directed projects associated with the reconstruction of Kuwait following the first Gulf War, served as senior vice president and CFO of the American Trucking Associations; and he held a number of senior governmental assignments. He was appointed by President Ford to the U.S. Department of State post of assistant inspector general of foreign assistance/deputy assistant secretary of state. Before that, he served in the Bureau for Security and Consular Affairs and was one of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger’s youngest deputy assistant secretaries. Prior to his U.S. Department of State tour, he was deputy special assistant to the President at the White House. Lebedev earned a law degree from the University of South Dakota and holds a bachelor's degree from the same university. He is admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia, and serves on a number of boards of directors, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Elliot Schrage is the vice president of communications and public policy at Facebook, where he is responsible for developing and coordinating key messages about products, corporate business, and partnerships. He also oversees the company’s public policy strategy worldwide. Schrage joined Facebook from Google, where he was the vice president of communications and public affairs. He helped broaden and coordinate the company’s messaging from a focus on product PR to include all aspects of corporate, financial, policy, philanthropi,c and internal communications. Prior to Google, Schrage was the Bernard L. Schwarz senior fellow in business and foreign policy at the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations. Earlier in his career, Schrage served as the senior vice president of global affairs for Gap Inc. and an adjunct professor at Columbia University and Columbia Law School. He has been a contributor to the Harvard Business Review and Financial Times. Schrage holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard College, a master’s degree in public policy from the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government and a law degree from Harvard Law School. John Stout is an officer and shareholder-attorney at Fredrikson & Byron in Minneapolis, Minnesota, practicing principally in business organization, finance, and governance. Stout represents family-owned, closely-held, and publicly-owned businesses in these matters, domestically and internationally. He advises executives, boards, board committees, directors, and officers on governance, risk assessment, legal compliance, and protection against liability. He has served as an expert witness on corporate governance matters, and frequently writes and speaks on governance subjects. He is an adjunct professor at the University of St. Thomas Law School, teaching corporate governance. Stout is a past director of the National Association of Corporate Directors, and chairs its Minnesota chapter. He is a vice chair of the American Bar Associatiion Corporate Governance Committee and co-chairs committees on international governance developments and non-profit governance. John D. Sullivan is the executive director of CIPE. As associate director of the Democracy Program, John helped to establish both CIPE and the National Endowment for Democracy in 1983. After serving as program director, Sullivan became executive director in 1991. Under his leadership CIPE developed a number of innovative approaches that link democratic development to market reforms including: combating corruption, promoting corporate governance, building business associations, supporting the informal sector, and programs to assist women and youth entrepreneurs. Today CIPE has 75 full time staff with offices in Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Pakistan, Romania, and Russia. Sullivan joined the U.S. Chamber in 1977 in the public affairs department as a specialist in business and economic education. While in the public affairs department he ran a clearinghouse that specialized in assisting corporations, chambers, associations, and universities in developing their own in-house programs. Prior to the U.S. Chamber, Sullivan was a member of President Ford’s election campaign and worked in Los Angeles’ inner city neighborhoods helping to develop minority business programs. Sullivan received a doctorate in political science from the University of Pittsburgh and is the author of numerous publications on the transition to democracy, corporate governance, and market-oriented democratic development. He is also an adjunct faculty member at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies as well as at George Mason University Graduate School of Public Affairs. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Russian Institute of Directors’ Advisory Board, the Bretton Woods Association, and the American Political Science Association. Born in Bisbee, Arizona in 1948, John was raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He now resides in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife Patricia. Hildy Teegen is dean of the Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. Her global background and interests make her a natural fit for the Moore School, which is known worldwide for its undergraduate and graduate international business programs. Previously, she was director of The George Washington University’s Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) in Washington, D.C. where she focused on brokering relationships and forging links – with the greater university, with students, with alumni, and with other "outside constituents" such as the government and the private sector. Teegen also held a joint appointment at The George Washington University as a professor of international business at the School of Business and as a professor of international affairs at the Elliott School. Teegen is outgoing department editor (Institutions and Comparative Capitalism) for the Journal of International Business Studies, the premier academic journal in the field. She was an editorial board member for Journal of International Management from 1999 to 2006. She is a founding executive board member of the Women of the Academy of International Business (AIB). Fluent in Spanish, Teegen has lived in Mexico, Portugal, the Dominican Republic, and Grand Cayman Island. She has taught international business at the George Washington University; The College of William and Mary; Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México in Mexico City; the University of Texas at Austin; Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico; and Universidade do Porto in Oporto, Portugal. Teegen received The George Washington University School of Business Dean’s Scholar Award for 2006-2007, and the school’s Board of Advisors Award for Faculty Service in 2005. In 2005, she won the Best Reviewer Award from the International Management Division of the Academy of Management. Teegen is a member of the Academy of International Business, the Academy of Management, and the Business Association of Latin American Studies, and is a member of the Globalization of Business Education task force of the Association for the Advancement of Collegiate Schools of Business. Teegen has written extensively about global business, most recently about interactions between firms, governments, and non-governmental organizations. She has edited two books and co-authored two more. In addition to her service as a member of the board of CIPE, she serves on the boards of the Palmetto Institute, the United Way of the Midlands of South Carolina, the Columbia, South Carolina Chamber of Commerce, and is a member of the Midlands Business Leadership Group. Teegen earned bachelor's degrees in Latin American Studies and International Business and Finance from the University of Texas at Austin in 1987. In 1993, she received a doctorate in international business, with a sub-specialty in marketing strategy and economic development, also from the University of Texas at Austin. Mary Ann Gooden Terrell was nominated by President Clinton, confirmed by Congress, and sworn in as an associate judge for the District of Columbia Superior Court in September 1997. She received her law degree from Georgetown University School of Law. She is a former assistant U.S. attorney. Judge Terrell is involved in international judicial training in the area of alternative dispute resolution and judicial assessment and reform. She has worked in Ghana, Malawi, Mail, South Africa, Uganda, and Zambia. In 2006, the Honorable Jendayi Fraser, assistant secretary of state for Africa, appointed Judge Terrell to chair a panel for the African judiciary that would create viable models for judicial reform in Benin, Liberia, and Malawi. She is the founder of the African Judicial Network that promotes and supports best legal practices among the judiciaries throughout the continent. Terrell is an educator and youth advocate. She has spent over 20 years training teachers, administrators, and developing educational programs for inner city youth to deter them from crime and keep them out of the criminal justice system. Her experiences and deep concern for our youth led her to create The High Tea Society, Inc., a non-profit organization for inner city girls ages 9 to 18 years old who attend District of Columbia public schools and live in economically challenged communities. She is the founder of the Dix Street Academy, an alternative high school for youth who dropped out or were pushed out of the District of Columbia public school system. Terrell is a founding member of the National Congress of Black Women. She was also inducted into the D.C. Women’s Hall of Fame in March 1998. In June 2003, Judge Terrell was inducted into the Washington Bar Association Hall of Fame. In April 2008, she was inducted into the Washington, D.C. Hall of Fame. She is co-chair of the Embassy Relations Committee of Rotary Club of Washington, D.C. She is a member of the board of directors of the International Judicial Academy, Continentals Inc, and CIPE. She is married to Rev. Dr. James E. Terrell, pastor of the Second Baptist Church of Washington founded in 1848. She has three children, Angela, Mariessa, and James Stephen.
With more than 30 years as The Heritage Foundation's executive vice president and COO, Truluck has been responsible for not only developing and maintaining the think tank's physical presence on Capitol Hill, but its intellectual presence as well. In 1977, Truluck, a long-time associate of Heritage President Ed Feulner at the Republican Study Committee, became Heritage's Director of Research. He built a new kind of research department – one that did not previously exist in Washington – for Heritage. Under Truluck's guidance, Hertiage became the first to take complicated public-policy questions and translate them into concise, credible research papers that would be quickly read by policymakers in Congress and the executive branch. Truluck also oversaw Heritage's move into new Capitol Hill headquarters in the 1980s and their expansion into an annex building in 2001. In 2007, Truluck took on another major project: A complete renovation of the building's façade at 214 Massachusetts Ave N.E. – complete new windows, a new entrance vestibule, and a new balcony outside Heritage's Davis Policy Center.
George J. VojtaGeorge Vojta is a former president and current director of the Financial Services Forum – an organization formed by 19 of the nations most prominent, diversified financial firms. This organization focuses on regulatory, legislative, and public policy issues related to the global financial system. Vojta is a former vice chairman of the board, director, and member of the management committee of Bankers Trust Company and its parent, Bankers Trust New York Corporation, and former executive vice president for Strategic Planning, Citicorp. He is a director of Private Export Funding Corporation (PEFCO); Urstadt-Biddle Properties, a trustee of St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center; a member of the Council on Foreign Relations; the New York State Banking Board; and he is chairman of the board of the Wharton Financial Institutions Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Vojta received his bachelor's. and master's degrees from Yale University. |
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