Jennifer A. HILLMAN

Jennifer Hillman has had a distinguished career in public service, both nationally and internationally. She is currently the co-director of the Center on Inclusive Trade and Development and a professor from practice at the Georgetown University Law Center. She is also a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. She previously served as one of seven judges from around the world on the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) highest court, its Appellate Body, where she helped adjudicate disputes involving a wide variety of international rights and obligations. Ms. Hillman also has in-depth experience adjudicating antidumping, countervailing duty, patent and safeguards cases along with conducting numerous studies of the economics of trade policy and trade agreements as a result of her nine-year service as a Commissioner at the United States International Trade Commission. Through her work as the General Counsel at the Office of the United States Trade Representative, Ms. Hillman was integrally involved in all litigation matters in which the United States was a party or third party in disputes before panels of the NAFTA or the WTO and in addressing the intersections between trade policy, trade law and foreign policy. She demonstrated great success at negotiating trade agreements, having reached mutually acceptable agreements with over 45 countries while serving as USTR’s Ambassador and Chief Textiles Negotiator. Ms. Hillman also has extensive policy-making experience, having worked in the United States Senate on numerous pieces of legislation relating to banking, securities, financial services, investment, housing and international trade.