About Us

In This Section

• Overview
• Our Team
• Claude G.B. Fontheim
• Jennifer Morris
• Nicole Sacco
• Hana Cho
• Christopher Ferraguto
• Ursila Jagesar
• D. Holly Hammonds
• Katrin Kuhlmann
• Stephen Herbits
• Shehnaz Rangwala
• Richard Leach
• Holly Page
• William ("Bud") Clatanoff
• Careers
• Our Clients

D. Holly Hammonds

Senior Advisor

D. Holly Hammonds is a Senior Advisor of Fontheim International, LLC and a Co-Founder, Member of the Board, and Senior Advisor to GlobalWorks Foundation.

Ms. Hammonds has extensive experience, in both the private and public sectors, in international trade law and policy, and has worked in many capacities on global environmental issues and policy, on labor and human rights issues, and on the relationship among global business, environmental and humanitarian priorities.

From 1998-2000, Ms. Hammonds served on the senior staff of the White House National Economic and National Security Councils, as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for International Economic Affairs. In this capacity, she managed trade and national security related economic issues involving all areas of the world. Ms. Hammonds also served at the NSC/NEC from 1993-1994, focusing on global trade, economic development, environment, and labor issues.

In the intervening four years, Ms. Hammonds was a partner and Managing Director of Fontheim International LLC, where she represented and advised multinational companies on international trade policy, corporate strategy, and labor standards compliance issues. Prior to this, Ms. Hammonds served in a variety of other government and private sector positions, including as a trade attorney in private practice and as a trade negotiator in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.

Ms. Hammonds has been a Senior Fellow of the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI), an International Affairs Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a Visiting Fellow of World Resources Institute. She has written and spoken widely on global development, trade and environmental issues.

Ms. Hammonds is a graduate of Yale Law School, where she was a founding Editor of the Yale Law and Policy Review, and of Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Ms. Hammonds is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and of the Bar of the District of Columbia.