Renee Bowen is an Economist and Dean's Professor of International Business and Global Affairs at Georgetown University. She is jointly appointed in the McDonough School of Business and the Walsh School of Foreign Service. She has held previous academic positions at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, UC San Diego’s Department of Economics and School of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS). In 2019 she founded the Center for Commerce and Diplomacy at UC San Diego, and served as its Director until 2023.

She is an Economic Theory Fellow at the Society for the Advances in Economic Theory, a Council Member of the Game Theory Society, has published in top economics journals including the American Economic Review, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and is on the editorial boards of the American Economic Review: Insights, Journal of Economic Literature and the Review of International Organizations. Her professional memberships include the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and a Board member of the Pacific Council on International Relations. She has held other positions at the Hoover Institution, the World Bank, J.P. Morgan Securities, the Inter-American Development Bank, and is currently a member of the California Governor’s Council of Economic Advisors, where she chaired the Workforce Development Subcommittee.

She holds a PhD in Economics from Georgetown University, and a BSc in Civil Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her recent research examines the design of global multilateral institutions and formation of political beliefs in societies.

Sharon Bomer Lauritsen is the Principal and founder of AgTrade Strategies LLC, a specialty consulting service on U.S. agricultural trade policies focusing on expanding exports of American agricultural products, food, and beverages.  Sharon has over 35 years of U.S. government agriculture policy experience, 26 years of which were working for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.  During her 16 years at USTR, Sharon led agriculture trade negotiations for the United States as the Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Agricultural Affairs, including for the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement, US-China Economic and Trade Agreement, and US-Japan Agreement.  Sharon brings expertise on agricultural trade policy in free trade agreements and World Trade Organization negotiations, as well as tariffs, farm support, sanitary and phytosanitary measures, technical barriers to trade, and agricultural biotechnology.

Carlo Dade is one of Canada’s leading voices in defending and advancing Western Canadian trade interests, including developing creative solutions to major trade challenges with China and the U.S. Carlo is a frequent media commentator and writer on pan-Pacific trade, agricultural trade issues, including Right2Repair, North American competitiveness and Canada-Mexico relations. Carlo is currently a Professional Affiliate at the Johnson Shoyama School of Public Policy at the University of Saskatchewan, a member of the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations (COMEXI) and formerly a non-Resident Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C.

Juan Carlos is a renowned expert in international trade, regional economic integration and foreign affairs. His responsibilities in the Mexican government spanned over two decades, where he served as Director General for North America, Chief of Staff to the Minister and Deputy Chief Negotiator for Mexico in the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Vice Minister for Foreign Trade. During his tenure the CTPP was ratified by the Mexican Senate, and he concluded successful negotiations to deepen and modernize the existing trade agreement between Mexico and the European Union. Similarly, he was a leading figure in the negotiations between Mexico, the United States and Canada that eventually produced the United States, Mexico and Canada agreement (USMCA), which upgraded and modernized the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). He holds a B.A. on International Trade from the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), an M.A. in International Political Economy from the University of Warwick and a PhD in business sciences from Universidad Panamericana.

Andrea Durkin serves as vice president for international policy for the National Association of Manufacturers, working for the success of manufacturers by advancing trade policies that aims to unlock global opportunities for people who make things in America. She is one of the nation’s foremost experts on international policy, drawing from decades of experience serving in Democratic and Republican administrations. Immediately prior to joining the NAM, Andrea served as Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for World Trade Organization (WTO) and Multilateral Affairs. She led trade negotiations and U.S. policy at the WTO and was responsible for committees on industrial subsidies, technical barriers to trade, government procurement, trade facilitation, customs and others. She was also the U.S. senior official for the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development Trade Committee, G7 and G20 trade tracks. This was Andrea’s second stint in the Office of U.S. Trade Representative, after nearly two decades in the private sector as an entrepreneur, author and corporate government relations executive.

Kathleen Claussen is Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center.  She is the author of more than five dozen works concerning trade, investment, and international dispute settlement, among other related research areas. She has also acted as counsel or arbitrator in over two dozen international disputes. Among other leadership roles, she has served on the Executive Council and Executive Committee of the American Society of International Law and is co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International Economic Law.  Prior to joining the academy, Professor Claussen was Associate General Counsel at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.  Earlier in her career, she was Legal Counsel at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague covering disputes between countries and investment law arbitrations.  She is a graduate of the Yale Law School, Queen’s University Belfast where she was a Mitchell Scholar, and Indiana University where she was a Wells Scholar.

Amy Porges practices international trade and customs law in Washington, DC, advising stakeholders and governments on trade strategy, trade law and trade agreement-based disputes. Her trade law experience includes work as Senior Counsel for Dispute Settlement and head of enforcement at the Office of the US Trade Representative; Senior Legal Officer in the GATT Secretariat; and private practice at major international law firms and her own practice. She has published extensively on trade law and currently co-chairs the International Law Association Committee on ADR in Public International Law.

Meredith Broadbent serves as a senior adviser (non-resident) with the Scholl Chair in International Business at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. A former chair of the U.S. International Trade Commission, she was assistant U.S. trade representative for industry, market access, and telecommunications from 2002-2008. In that position, she was responsible for developing U.S. policy that affected trade in industrial goods, telecommunications, and e-commerce. She led the U.S. negotiating team for the Doha Round negotiations to reduce tariff and nontariff barriers on industrial goods. From 2008 to 2010, she was a trade adviser at the Global Business Dialogue. Earlier in her career, Broadbent served as a senior professional staff member with the Committee on Ways and Means of the U.S. House of Representatives, where she drafted and managed major portions of the Trade and Development Act of 2000, legislation to authorize normal trade relations with China, and the Trade Act of 2002, which included trade promotion authority. She was instrumental in the development and House passage of the implementing bills for the North American Free Trade Agreement and Uruguay Round Agreements. Broadbent holds a bachelor’s of arts in history from Middlebury College and a master’s of business administration from the George Washington University School of Business and Public Management.

Levinson serves as the CEO of the Washington International Trade Association and WITA Foundation. WITA is the world’s largest non-profit, non-partisan membership organization dedicated to providing a neutral forum for the open and robust discussion of international trade policy and economic issues. Ken has over 30 years of experience working with companies, associations, NGOs and governments, advocating innovative solutions to complex public policy challenges. Over the years, Ken has worked with clients in the technology, telecommunications, biopharmaceuticals, agriculture and food, financial services, retail, apparel, energy, and consumer products sectors. Early in his career, Ken advised U.S. Senator John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV on foreign policy and national security matters and served as the Senator’s chief advisor on the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, dealing with issues related to international trade and tax policy.

Kuhlmann is a Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, where she is also the Faculty Co-Director of the Center on Inclusive Trade and Development. She teaches courses in law, development, and international trade. Her work and research focus on trade and development, regional trade agreements (with a particular focus on Africa), trade and gender, inclusive agricultural trade, comparative economic law, and the interdisciplinary connections between law and development. Kuhlmann is the President and Founder of New Markets Lab (NML), a non-profit law and development innovation lab. She is also a Senior Associate with the Global Food Security Program of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Earlier in her career, she served as a trade negotiator at USTR and a lawyer at two international law firms, and she has held senior positions with several non-profit organizations and think tanks. 

James leads Fonterra's trade strategy, sustainability and stakeholder affairs advocacy across the Americas region and is based in Chicago. Fonterra is a New Zealand dairy co-operative owned by around 8,000 farming families and supplying dairy nutrition to consumers around the world.  James joined Fonterra in 2002, maintains an interest in family-owned dairy farms in New Zealand and has worked in roles across New Zealand, Singapore and the United States. James graduated with a MSc in Trade and Developing Countries with distinction from the University of Reading (United Kingdom), is a United Kingdom Commonwealth Scholar, and graduated with Bachelor of Business Studies (Economics) and Bachelor of Science (Chemistry) from Massey University (New Zealand).

Warren Maruyama is a Partner at Hogan Lovells, whose practice focuses on U.S. and international trade law, negotiations, policies, and disputes. Warren served as General Counsel of the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (2007-2009), Associate Director for International Economic Policy on the White House staff (1989-1992), USTR Associate General Counsel (1983-1989), and staff attorney at the U.S. International Trade Commission (1980-1983). 

McDaniel is a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center and a non-resident fellow at the Clayton Yeutter Institute of International Trade and Finance at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her research focuses on international trade, globalization, and intellectual property rights. McDaniel previously worked at Sidley Austin, LLP, a global law firm, where she was a senior economist. She has held several positions in the U.S. government, including Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Treasury Department and senior trade economist in the White House Council of Economic Advisers, and has worked in the economic offices of the U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Trade Representative, and U.S. International Trade Commission. Christine spent three years in Australia as deputy chief economist in Australia’s patent office. She has published in the areas of international trade, intellectual property, and empirical trade analysis and modeling. Christine has written for the Wall Street Journal, Politico, The Hill, and Forbes, among others, and her media appearances include CNBC, CBC, BBC, Bloomberg, Fox, and MSNBC. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Colorado and received her B.A. in Economics and Japanese Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.