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Katrin Kuhlmann
Senior Advisor
Katrin Kuhlmann is a Senior Advisor of Fontheim International, LLC and the President of the Trade, Aid and Security Coalition (TASC), a project of GlobalWorks Foundation.
Prior to joining Fontheim, Ms. Kuhlmann was the Senior Vice President for Global Trade at the Women' Edge Coalition, where she developed and led the organization’s trade policy program. She has testified before Congress and has written and spoken on matters of international economic development and trade policy. Ms. Kuhlmann is an Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown University School of Law. She is also a Resident Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States.
From 1999 to 2005, Ms. Kuhlmann served as the Director for Eastern Europe and Eurasia in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) where she was responsible for developing and coordinating U.S. trade policy with Russia, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia. She played a key role in negotiations involving Russia’s accession to the World Trade Organization and successfully led an inter-agency effort to conclude a Trade and Investment Framework Agreement with the five Central Asian Republics.
Prior to joining USTR, Ms. Kuhlmann practiced law at Dewey Ballantine LLP in Washington, D.C. and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom LLP in New York.
Ms. Kuhlmann holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.A. in Economics and German Studies from Creighton University. She was the recipient of a Fulbright grant to study international economics in Halle, Germany in 1992.