Please join the PIPS Alumni Network & the Young Professionals in Foreign Policy Group at the beautiful DACOR Bacon House on Wednesday, November 6th from 6:00 to 9:00 pm for a fireside conversation with some of the foremost regulators and policy experts in the Global Trade space. The current Presidential administration has overseen a remarkable - and nearly unprecedented - pivot across export controls, sanctions, and foreign direct investment rules. Our panel will outline the current trends and headwinds that have shaped the last four years and will likely define the next five.
Light hors d'oeuvres and a cash bar will precede the in-person evening's program.
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Register for online attendance here (program begins at 7:00 p.m.).
Amanda Blair is a PIPS Alumna, presenting her research in 2016. Since then she has been a 2021 Presidential Management Fellow (PMF) and graduate of Yale University (M.A. Global Affairs) and has risen through the ranks of the Council on Foreign Investment in the US (CFIUS) at the Department of the Treasury, now holding the position of Deputy Director.
Jeannette Chu served in various positions in the US Government for twenty years, including as the senior export control attaché in the US embassy in Beijing and a senior policy advisor at the Bureau of Industry and Security. She worked at PWC, consulting on export controls matters, for many years. Most recently, she is a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and Vice President National Security Policy for the National Foreign Trade Council, leading their Alliance for National Security and Competitiveness. Hers is a calm and steadying voice in an increasingly challenging regulatory sphere.
Dak Hardwick a former Presidential Management Fellow, Hardwick began his career at Headquarters, Marine Corps as an appropriations budget analyst, later transitioning to the Office of the Secretary of Defense where he helped establish the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense after September 11, 2001. Among his various national security positions were country director for Georgia and the Republic of Moldova and director for peacekeeping operations. After a stint in private industry at the Harris Corporation, working in government affairs and export controls, he joined the Aerospace Industries Association as Vice President, International Affairs. There, he oversees AIA’s international policy and advocacy program on behalf of the U.S. aerospace and defense industry on issues including defense and commercial trade, industrial cooperation, technology security, and global supply chain to stakeholders around the world.
Barath Harithas began his career with mandatory military service and Singapore's Ministry of Foreign Service. He moved to become Assistant Director at the Ministry of Trade and Industry, and from there joined Enterprise Singapore, where he drafted Singapore's first ever 'National AI Standards Roadmap,' and developed the first-ever cybersecurity labelling scheme for consumer IoT products and AI security certification scheme in the world (which President Biden referenced as a blueprint for future US standards). After receiving his master's from Harvard's Kennedy School, where he did extensive research on AI and semiconductor design and manufacturing, he has joined CSIS as a senior fellow on their Project on Trade and Technology. He recently published a white paper titled "Mapping the Chip Smuggling Pipeline and Improving Export Control Compliance."
Dylan Kolhoff is a PIPS alumnus who presented his project in 2014. Since then, he has been deeply engaged in US-China foreign policy both through continued research and in teaching English with Teach for China. While completing his JD at Yale, Dylan interned with the US Treasury Department, including CFIUS work, and with Covington & Burling. After graduation, he was a law fellow in the Office of Dianne Feinstein, a clerk in the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, and an associate at Covington. He now works at the Treasury Department as an attorney advisor.
We look forward to welcoming you to DACOR Bacon House to meet this distinguished panel of foreign policy experts.