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Global Business at Meridian Featuring Commissioner Meredith Broadbent

Start Date: 6/21/2019 8:00 AM EDT
End Date: 6/21/2019 9:30 AM EDT

Venue Name: Meridian International Center

Location:
1624 Crescent Place NW
Washington, DC  United States  20009

Organization Name: WIIT

Contact:
WIIT Staff
Email: info@wiit.org
Phone: 202-869-3779



GLOBAL BUSINESS @ MERIDIAN


WIIT Members are cordially invited for for a breakfast programfrom 8:00-9:30 am at Meridian on Friday, June 21, 2019.
FEATURING

Commissioner Meredith Broadbent
U.S. International Trade Commission
 

TO DISCUSS THE ROLE OF THE USITC IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE POLICY
 
Moderated by:
Michaela Chen
Vice-Chair of the Meridian Corporate Council
Vice President, Boston Scientific

Breakfast will be served. Program to begin promptly at 8:30 AM
 
Meredith M. Broadbent

Meredith M. Broadbent, a Republican of Virginia, was nominated to the USITC by President Barack Obama on November 8, 2011, and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on August 2, 2012. She was sworn in as a member of the Commission on September 10, 2012, for a term expiring on June 16, 2017. She served as Chairman of the Commission from June 17, 2014, through June 16, 2016.

Commissioner Broadbent held the William M. Scholl Chair in International Business at the Center for Strategic and International Studies from October 2010 until her USITC appointment.

From 2003 to 2008, she served as Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Industry, Market Access, and Telecommunications. 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 and successfully concluded an innovative plurilateral trade agreement with the European Union, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. She also directed an administration initiative to reform the Generalized System of Preferences program for developing countries.

From 2009 to 2010, she was a Trade Advisor at the Global Business Dialogue, a multinational business association focused on international trade and investment issues.

Earlier in her career, Commissioner Broadbent served as a senior professional staff member on the Republican staff of the Committee on Ways and Means of the U.S. House of Representatives. In that position, 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 and the Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act.

Prior to that, she served as professional staff for the House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee, where she was instrumental in the development and House passage of the implementing bills for the North American Free Trade Agreement and Uruguay Round Agreements.

Commissioner Broadbent holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Middlebury College and a Master of Business Administration degree from the George Washington University School of Business and Public Management.

Commissioner Broadbent is originally from Cleveland, Ohio. She has two sons, Charles and William Riedel, and resides in McLean, Virginia.
 

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