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Bios of Speakers at the
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Jason Bernstein <jason_bernstein@ustr.eop.gov> is the Director of Customs Affairs at the
Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR), where he is the lead U.S. rules of origin
negotiator for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Transatlantic Trade and Investment
Partnership (T-TIP) agreements. He is also the lead U.S. negotiator for the TPP Customs
Administration and Trade Facilitation chapter. Previously, he was the Director of Market Access at
the USTR Office of Small Business, Market Access, and Industrial Competitiveness and Senior
Policy Advisor for the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS).
Timothy C. Brightbill <TBrightbill@wileyrein.com> is a partner at Wiley Rein LLP. He
represents clients on all aspects of international trade law and policy including import trade
remedies (such as antidumping law, countervailing duty law and safeguards investigations),
global trade policy and trade negotiations, international arbitration, export controls
(compliance and licensing), climate change policy, customs matters and international ecommerce issues. Tim represented a coalition of domestic producers in the most
comprehensive trade safeguards investigation in U.S. history, culminating in a successful
remedy proclamation by the President. He is rated among the nation’s leading lawyers for
business by Chambers USA (2010-2012), which notes that “he stands out as ‘an incredibly
impressive ‘nuts and bolts’ lawyer’” (2010) and “is making a name in the trade remedies field”
(2011). Tim edited “Trade Remedies for Global Companies,” an American Bar Association book
on U.S. and foreign trade remedies, and authored a chapter on antidumping law and
countervailing duty law petitions. Since 2002, he has been a Member of the Industry Trade
Advisory Committee on Services and Finance Industries, and since 2002 he has been Adjunct
Professor, International Trade Law and Regulation, Georgetown University Law Center.
Bonnie B. Byers < bbyers@kslaw.com> joined King & Spalding in 2004 as an international
trade economist in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office. She is responsible for economic analysis
of trade litigation and policy analysis of international trade and investment issues. She has 30
years’ experience in the field of international trade.
Ms. Byers has in-depth experience with international trade and intellectual property concerns,
including antidumping/countervailing duty litigation, customs law, Section 301 and Section 337.
She has provided economic analysis and negotiation support for clients in conjunction with
multilateral trade agreements, including the WTO Doha Round, China PNTR, and the Transpacific
Partnership. Ms. Byers has expertise in the technical, economic and political issues surrounding
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trade relations with China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Europe and within North America. She is an
expert on the issue of Chinese government subsidies. She is active in a number of Washington,
D.C., policy groups, including the Committee to Support US Trade Laws. Ms. Byers is also an
adjunct professor at Georgetown Law School.
Prior to joining King & Spalding, Ms. Byers was an international trade economist at the law firm
of Hale and Dorr in Washington, DC, from 1992-2004. Previously, she was an economist in the
international trade departments of Morrison & Foerster and Akin, Gump, and as an international
economist for Import Administration at the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Ms. Byers received her B.A., magna cum laude, from the University of Southern California, and
her M.A. in international relations and economics from the Johns Hopkins University School of
Advanced International Studies.
Steve Charnovitz <scharnovitz@law.gwu.edu> is a Professor at George Washington
University Law School and writes on international trade, international law, U.S. foreign relations
law, and environmental sustainability. He hails from Savannah, Georgia. He received a B.A.
from Yale College, a J.D. from the Yale Law School, and an M.P.P. from the Kennedy School of
Government at Harvard University. He is admitted to the bar in New York and the District of
Columbia.
Prior to joining the George Washington Faculty in 2004, he practiced law for six years at the
firm now known as Wilmer Hale in Washington, D.C. From 1995 to 1999, he was Director of the
Global Environment & Trade Study (GETS) located at Yale University. From 1991 to 1995, he
was Policy Director of the Competitiveness Policy Council. The Council issued four reports to the
U.S. Congress and President. From 1987 to 1991, he was a Legislative Assistant to the Speaker
of the U.S. House of Representatives (Wright and Foley). Early in his career, he was an analyst
at the U.S. Department of Labor where his assignments included worker rights in U.S. trade
negotiations, trade adjustment assistance, and technical cooperation with Saudi Arabia.
Professor Charnovitz serves on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of International Economic
Law, the World Trade Review, Cosmopolis. A Review of Cosmopolitics, and the Journal of
Environment & Development. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the
American Law Institute. He is the author, co-author, or co-editor of three books and over 200
articles, essays, or book reviews.
David S. Christy, Jr. < DChristy@perkinscoie.com> is Senior Counsel at Perkins Coie LLP. For
over twenty years, David has represented governments and private-sector clients on
international trade matters, including World Trade Organization (WTO) litigation and
negotiations, trade policy, trade remedies and customs. His counsel includes designing and
implementing lobbying efforts before Congress and the executive branch as well as before
foreign governments. David's worldwide representations include serving with Professor Chris
Parlin as the first private counsel to argue a WTO member government's case before a WTO
panel, and representing Saudi Arabia in its accession to the WTO. His achievements during
more than two decades of practice have earned him a reputation as a "recognized WTO
expert," according to Chambers & Partners Global. Sovereign clients he has advised include
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Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Indonesia, Jamaica, Japan, Poland, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, St.
Lucia, Taiwan and Thailand. He has advised sovereigns on a multitude of commercial trade
issues, ranging from subsidies and anti-dumping duties, to labeling and product specifications,
to government procurement, services and intellectual property. He has advised companies in a
variety of sectors, including agriculture, aircraft and aircraft engines, automobiles, bearings,
chemicals, distilled spirits, electronics, including computer chips, energy, financial and other
services and steel.
David is a long-standing adjunct and visiting professor at several prestigious institutions. At
Georgetown University Law Center, since 1997, he has taught courses on the GATT and WTO
Agreements, the Uruguay and Doha Rounds, WTO disputes and U.S. trade policy. He serves on
the faculty of Georgetown's Academy of WTO Law and Policy at the Institute of International
Economic Law. He also teaches at American University Washington College of Law and Catholic
University of Lyon in France. A graduate of The University of Chicago Law School, David has
been quoted extensively by the BBC, Voice of America and other global media on international
trade and WTO issues, and has been published in Foreign Policy.
Stacy Ettinger <Stacy_Ettinger@rules.senate.gov> has held several senior positions with
United States Senator Charles E. Schumer Since 2007. She currently serves as Chief Counsel of
the United States Senate Committee on Rules and Administration where she is the chief legal
and policy advisor on federal elections, campaign finance, presidential nominations, Senate
rules and regulations, and oversight of legislative branch and executive branch agencies under
the Committee’s jurisdiction. She also served as the chief legal advisor for the 2013 presidential
inauguration. Previously Ms. Ettinger served as the Senator’s principal legal and policy advisor
on regulatory compliance issues, international trade and investment, customs matters, food
and product safety, consumer financial services, export controls, government procurement,
and international data privacy rules.
Prior to joining the Senator’s legislative team, Ms. Ettinger served for 15 years as a senior legal
advisor at the U.S. Department of Commerce, including as Associate Chief Counsel for Import
Administration and Chief of Antidumping & Countervailing Duty Regulation. Ms. Ettinger
advised agency officials on the interpretation and application of U.S., foreign and WTO
subsidy and antidumping rules, supervised all WTO dispute settlement proceedings involving
challenges to Department of Commerce antidumping and countervailing duty determinations,
and represented the United States in multilateral and bilateral trade agreement negotiations.
Ms. Ettinger also clerked for the Honorable Arlin M. Adams in the first Extraordinary Challenge
under Chapter 19 of the U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement. Ms. Ettinger is the recipient of
multiple Department of Commerce awards, including a 2004 Bronze Medal award for work on
the U.S.-Chile Free Trade Agreement, a 1997 Silver Medal award for work on regulations
implementing the Uruguay Round Agreements Act, and the 1995 General Counsel’s award for
unusually outstanding legal contributions.
Ms. Ettinger also is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center and
serves on the Board of the Trade Policy Forum. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan
and the American University Washington College of Law.
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R. Michael Gadbaw <rmg57@law.georgetown.edu> is an Adjunct Professor and Senior
Distinguished Fellow at the Institute of International Economic Law at Georgetown Law School
where he teaches a seminar on international regulation. At the Institute, Mr. Gadbaw’s
research is focused on the systemic regulation of global trade and investment. (Systemic
Regulation of Global Trade and Finance: A Tale of Two Systems, Journal of International
Economic Law 2010 13: 551-574.) He is an active supporter of efforts to build rule of law
capacity in emerging markets. As a previous board member and contributor to Partners for
Democratic Change, Mr. Gadbaw spearheaded fundraising efforts for PDC’s Sustainable
Leadership Initiative. He also serves on the boards of the National Bureau of Asian Research
and the European Institute and is a Senior Advisor at Oxford Analytica.
In February 2008, Mr. Gadbaw retired after seventeen years as Vice President and Senior
Counsel for International Law & Policy at General Electric. In that position, he was responsible
for supporting the global operations of GE’s businesses; he was the corporate officer in charge
of GE’s anticorruption and export controls compliance and directed GE’s efforts in the areas of
international public policy, transaction advocacy, regulatory reform and global funding. Mr.
Gadbaw began his legal career as Counsel in the General Counsel’s office in the U.S. Treasury
Department and later served in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. He was a partner in
two Washington law firms: Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson and Hand (1980-1985) and
Dewey Ballantine (1985- 1990).
Mr. Gadbaw completed his undergraduate work at Fordham University in 1969 (Magna Cum
Laude and Phi Beta Kappa), earned a Master’s Degree from the Fletcher School of Law and
Diplomacy (1970), completed a year of graduate work at the Institut de Hautes Etudes
Internationales in Geneva and received a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Michigan in
1974.
Jean Heilman Grier < Jhgrier@djaghe.com> has more than 25 years of experience in
international trade as a U.S. trade negotiator, lawyer, and adviser. She served as the Senior
Procurement Negotiator for the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) for 10
years and was the U.S. representative to the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Committee on
Government Procurement.
She led negotiations for the United States in the recent revision of the WTO Agreement on
Government Procurement (GPA), government procurement chapters in free trade agreements
(FTAs) and GPA accessions of Armenia, China, Jordan, Moldova, New Zealand and Ukraine. Ms.
Grier was also the U.S. negotiator for the government procurement chapter in the Trans-Pacific
Partnership Agreement (TPP) (through 2012), and led preparations for the procurement
negotiations in the U.S.-EU Transatlantic Trade and Investment Agreement (TTIP).
Prior to joining USTR, she served as Senior Counsel for Trade Agreements in the Office of the
General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Commerce where she worked on a wide range of
international trade issues, including the negotiation of the North American Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA) and numerous Japanese bilateral agreements.
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Ms. Grier received law degrees from the University of Minnesota (J.D.) and the University of
Washington (LL.M), and an undergraduate degree from South Dakota State University. She is
admitted to the bar in Minnesota and the District of Colombia. As a Fulbright Scholar at Tohoku
University in Sendai, Japan, she conducted research on Japanese administrative law.
Jean Heilman Grier has published extensively in law journals on international trade topics. She
maintains a blog on international trade issues at: http://trade.djaghe.com. Currently, she is the
principal trade consultant with Djaghe, LLC.
James D. Grueff <grueff@decisionleaders.com> founded Decision Leaders after retiring as a
Foreign Service Officer from the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) of the U.S. Department of
Agriculture in January 2005. In his post-government work he has made presentations on the
WTO and agricultural policy in Russia, the United Kingdom, France, Bulgaria, Senegal and Peru.
He currently advises Danish pork exporters on developments in U.S. agricultural trade policy
and for more than four years he worked closely with officials from the Republic of Serbia on
their accession to the WTO. He has also been a facilitator or moderator for strategic planning
meetings and seminars held by governmental and agribusiness organizations. Mr. Grueff’s
Foreign Service career included representing FAS as its lead negotiator for the WTO Doha
Round negotiations through the end of 2004. Prior to that, in the Uruguay Round negotiations
he was the U.S. lead negotiator for the WTO Sanitary and Phytosanitary Agreement and team
leader for the agricultural market access agreements with Japan and Korea. He also served
overseas as the head of the FAS office at the U.S. Embassy in Bonn, Germany.
Jennifer A. Hillman < jah95@law.georgetown.edu> currently serves as a full-time visiting
professor of law at the Georgetown University Law School, teaching international law and
assisting in the direction of the Institute of International Economic Law. She is also a partner in
the Washington DC boutique international trade law firm of Cassidy Levy Kent. Ms. Hillman
has had a distinguished career in public service, both nationally and internationally. She
recently completed her term as one of seven members from around the world serving on the
World Trade Organization’s appellate court, its Appellate Body.
Prior to her selection as an Appellate Body member, Ms. Hillman served for nine years as a
Commissioner at the United States International Trade Commission (USITC), rendering decisions
in more than 600 investigations regarding injury to U.S. industries caused by imports that were
dumped or subsidized, along with making numerous decisions in cases regarding alleged patent
or trademark infringement. Prior to her appointment to the USITC, she served as General
Counsel at the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR), overseeing all the legal
work connected to trade negotiations and trade disputes before panels of the WTO or the
NAFTA. She had previously served as the Ambassador and Chief Textiles Negotiator for the
United States. Before joining USTR, Ms. Hillman served as Legislative Director and Counsel to
U.S. Senator Terry Sanford of North Carolina. She began her professional career as an
international trade attorney at the Washington, DC firm of Patton Boggs.
She is a graduate of the Harvard Law School and received a M.Ed. and a BA, magna cum laude,
from Duke University. In addition to her professional work, Ms. Hillman is a member of the
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Council on Foreign Relations and serves as a Senior Transatlantic Fellow for the German
Marshall Fund of the US, on the board of the Trade Policy Forum and on the selection panel for
Truman Scholars. In the past, she served on the Board of Trustees of Duke University, as well as
on Duke’s Board of Visitors and its Council on Women’s Studies.
Simon Lester <slester@cato.org> is a trade policy analyst at the Cato Institute. His research
focuses on WTO disputes, regional trade agreements, disguised protectionism and the history
of international trade law. He is also the founder of the web site WorldTradeLaw.net.
Previously, he worked for the trade law practice of a Washington, D.C. law firm, and also served
as a Legal Affairs Officer at the Appellate Body Secretariat of the World Trade Organization. He
has written a number of law journal articles, which have appeared in such publications as the
Stanford Journal of International Law, the George Washington International Law Review, the
Journal of International Economic Law and the Journal of World Trade. In addition, he has
taught courses on international trade law at American University’s Washington College of Law
and the University of Michigan Law School. He has a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
Charles S. Levy <clevy@cassidylevy.com> is a senior partner at Cassidy Levy Kent. He has
over 40 years of broad and in-depth experience in international trade and investment legal and
policy issues. In the area of international trade and investment negotiations, he has worked on
every major U.S. bilateral, regional and multilateral negotiation since the GATT Tokyo Round;
and in the area of U.S. international trade and investment laws, he has worked on every major
U.S. trade act since the Trade Act of 1974. He was a senior partner at Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering,
Hale and Dorr, where he served as Chairman of the firms International Trade Group; he
founded Cassidy Levy Kent with two other retired WilmerHale partners in 2010. He was
Counsel to the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Foreign Economic Policy and Legislative
Assistant for International Affairs to Senator Adlai Stevenson. He has also served on several
U.S. government advisory committees, including the U.S. Trade Representative’s Advisory
Committees on Intellectual Property Rights, Investment and Services, and Investment, where
he served as Chairman of the Task Force on Bilateral Investment Treaties, and the U.S.
Department of State’s Investment Advisory Committee and its Advisory Committee on
International Economic Policy. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of
Transparency International USA, a non-governmental organization dedicated to combating
bribery and corruption. He has also served as a member of the Executive Council of the
American Society of International Law, and as a member of the International Chamber of
Commerce’s Standing Committee on Extortion and Bribery, and was a member of the German
Marshal Fund’s Transatlantic Task Force on Trade and Investment. He was an Adjunct Professor
of Law Georgetown University Law School from 1982-1984 where he taught a seminar on
international trade law with Thomas Graham, who is now a member of the WTO Appellate
Body.
Meredith Kolsky Lewis <mlewis5@buffalo.edu> is Professor of Law and Vice Dean for
International and Graduate Programs at the SUNY Buffalo Law School. She is also a member of
the faculty and Associate Director of the New Zealand Centre of International Economic Law at
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the Victoria University of Wellington Law School. Her research focuses on international
economic law, with a particular emphasis on regional trade agreements and WTO dispute
settlement.
Meredith’s publications include two co-edited books and one co-authored textbook; numerous
book chapters; and articles in journals including the Stanford Journal of International Law, the
Journal of International Economic Law and the University of Chicago Journal of International
Law. Meredith was a visiting professor at Georgetown Law in 2010-11, and also served as
advisor to WTO Certificate students. She is a fellow of the Institute of International Economic
Law and previously taught in the WTO Academy in 2010 and 2011. Meredith is Co-Executive
Vice President and a founding member of the Society of International Economic Law. Prior to
entering academia, she was an associate in the Washington D.C. and Tokyo offices of Shearman
& Sterling LLP.
C. Christopher Parlin <parlinc@law.georgetown.edu> is Deputy Director of Georgetown
Law’s Institute of International Economic Law (IIEL) and an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown’s
Law Center. He also is Principal at Parlin & Associates. He has over 35 years of broad and indepth experience in trade negotiations, WTO and NAFTA, dispute settlement proceedings and
international trade policy matters. During an 18-year US Government career, he held senior
policy and legal positions in the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) in Washington
and as Legal Advisor to the USTR Mission to the GATT in Geneva. During the Uruguay Round he
negotiated the WTO Dispute Settlement and Subsidy Agreements. In private practice since
1995, he is one of the world’s foremost authorities on WTO negotiations and dispute
resolution. He was the first private attorney to present a Member government's case to a WTO
panel and the Appellate Body, and has participated in over 20 WTO disputes. He also was lead
counsel for the government of Saudi Arabia, advising the Kingdom on restructuring its traderelated legal laws and regulations and representing it in the bilateral and multilateral
negotiations that led to its accession to the WTO in December 2005. In 2009, he was honored
as Distinguished International Trade Law Alumnus by the American University’s Washington
College of Law.
Sonia E. Rolland <s.rolland@neu.edu> is an Associate Professor at Northeastern University
School of Law. Her current research focuses on the framework for development in
international trade law. Her book Development at the WTO (Oxford University Press,
hardbound 2012, paperback 2013) explores the legal framework for development at the WTO,
combining an examination of substantive law and institutional perspectives. Her research
interests include public international law, international trade law, environmental law and
energy regulation. Her research examines the intersection of different legal regimes to improve
the understanding of increasingly multi-layered international and transnational legal orders.
She currently is the Principal Investigator under an interdisciplinary grant (law and
environmental engineering) on international regulatory principles in the face of extreme
weather events uncertainty in the context of anthropogenic climate change.
Professor Rolland has published widely in French and in English. Her work has appeared in the
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Journal of International Economic Law, the Harvard International Law Journal, the Global
Community Yearbook and the European Journal of International Law amongst others. Prior to
joining academia, Rolland was an Associate with the Energy Law Practice Group of Sutherland
Asbill & Brennan LLP (Washington, DC office). Sonia earned her BA from the Institut d’Etudes
Politiques de Paris, her MA in International and European Economic Law from the University of
Paris, her JD from the University of Michigan and her PhD from Cambridge University (UK). She
clerked for H.E. Gilbert Guillaume and H.E. Ronny Abraham at the International Court of
Justice.
Rolland currently serves as Vice Chair of the International Economic Law Interest Group of the
American Society of International Law.
Andrew W. Shoyer <ashoyer@sidley.com> is a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of
Sidley Austin LLP and chairs the firm’s international trade and dispute resolution practice. Mr.
Shoyer focuses on the implementation and enforcement of international trade and investment
agreements. Drawing on his experience at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR),
Mr. Shoyer advises companies, trade associations and governments on the use of WTO, NAFTA
and other treaty-based trade and investment rules. Mr. Shoyer spent seven years at USTR,
serving most recently as Legal Advisor in the U.S. Mission to the WTO in Geneva. He was the
principal negotiator for the United States of the rules implementing the WTO Dispute
Settlement Understanding, and has briefed and argued numerous WTO cases before dispute
settlement panels and the WTO Appellate Body. Prior to his arrival in Geneva, Mr. Shoyer was
Assistant General Counsel at USTR in Washington, D.C., where he served as principal legal
counsel in the negotiation of the market access rules of the NAFTA, as well as the framework
agreements with various Latin American countries. Mr. Shoyer is an adjunct faculty member in
international trade policy at the School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University.
Courtney Smothers <Courtney_Smothers@ustr.eop.gov> is Associate General Counsel in
the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, where she has been since 2008. During her time at
USTR, she has focused on customs matters and rules of origin and has been lead attorney on
several WTO dispute proceedings. She was counsel for negotiations on the Trade Facilitation
Agreement and is lead attorney for several chapters in TPP and T-TIP. Prior to joining the
government, she was an associate at Arnold & Porter LLP.
Eric M. Solovy <esolovy@sidley.com> is a partner in the International Trade Group at Sidley
Austin LLP, a group that has been named the “Global Trade & Customs Law Firm of the Year” by
Who’s Who Legal every year since the award’s inception in 2005. He counsels companies, trade
associations, and governments on international trade and intellectual property matters, and
litigates disputes over such matters. Mr. Solovy focuses on dispute settlement before the
World Trade Organization (WTO), having been at the center of some of the most complex and
contentious disputes in its history. He has represented governments and counseled interested
private parties at every level of WTO dispute settlement proceedings, presenting written and
oral arguments before WTO panels and the Appellate Body on multiple occasions. Mr. Solovy
has litigated WTO disputes in a number of subject areas, and has particular experience in
disputes under the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS
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Agreement), the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures (SCM Agreement), and
the Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS Agreement). In
the intellectual property area, Mr. Solovy represents clients in litigation before the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Federal Circuit in complex patent disputes. In addition to his experience in
private practice, Mr. Solovy was a law clerk to the Honorable Pauline Newman of the U.S. Court
of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He also served for several years as an adjunct professor of
law at the American University Washington College of Law, teaching a course in International &
Comparative Patent Law.
David Townsend <dtownsend@perkinscoie.com> practices in the international trade group
of Perkins Coie LLP. He has particular experience in trade remedies and matters involving the
World Trade Organization (WTO) and U.S. free trade agreements. He has represented clients in
proceedings before the Department of Commerce, the International Trade Commission and U.S.
courts, and has extensive experience with trade policy, U.S. sanctions, export controls and
customs. He advises clients on export licensing, compliance and enforcement matters, as well as
trade due diligence in mergers and acquisitions. Dave also counsels on supply chain
management related to trade and corporate social responsibility laws. Prior to law school, Dave
served as Press Secretary to former Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa).
Dave earned his law degree at The George Washington University Law School (J.D., with honors),
where he was Senior Articles Editor of the Journal of Energy and Environmental Law. He
received his masters at The London School of Economics and Political Science (M.S.,
International Political Economy, with honors), and graduated from the University of Minnesota
(B.A., Political Science and Sociology, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa).
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