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Advisory Board

Samuel P. Fried

Executive Vice President of Law, Policy, and Governance, Limited Brands; More than thirty years experience in law, public policy, and international commerce;  A highly valued and trusted counselor to a number of significant business, philanthropic, civic, educational, religious, and political organizations and to their respective boards of directors, trustees, and managements.

Tamsin Spencer Smith

Founder of SlipStreamStrategy; previously President of Product (RED);  Ten years experience as Senior Director of Government Affairs at Gap Inc; Former senior legislative assistant to two Members of the House of Representatives and Associate Staff to the House Appropriations Committee.

Tom Freedman

President of Freedman Consulting; Senior Advisor to President Bill Clinton, and Special Assistant to the President for Policy Planning; Former Chief of Staff for Strategy for Clinton/Gore ’96;  Former Press Secretary and Legislative Director to then Congressman Charles E. Schumer (D-NY); Awarded traveling Watson Fellowship in 1985 for year long study of the African famine; Consultant for organizations involved in creating development policy; Conducted numerous polls on American voter attitudes towards development, poverty and American policies; Senior fellow at the Washington-based Progressive Policy Institute; Honors graduate of Carleton College, and a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and Editor-in-Chief of the California Law Review.

Ken lEVINSON

Ken Levinson is a Senior Advisor of Fontheim International, LLC and a Principal of KLC Strategies. Six years of experience on the staff of US Senator John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV, playing a leading role among Congressional staff on a wide array of tax and international trade policy issues. Prior to joining Senator Rockefeller's staff, Ken worked for Senator Harris Wofford, and the law firm of Richards & O'Neill in New York City.

Richard Leach

President of Leach Consulting International, Inc.; Senior Advisor of Friends of the World Food Program; More than twenty years experience in helping U.N. agencies, governments, and non-profit organizations develop new initiatives to address a wide range of issues; Led a review of the World Health Organization’s operations concerning pharmaceuticals and health technologies; Directed a global initiative to identify and build support for public policies most critical to the World Health Organization and American Cancer Society; Former Director of Department of Health and Human Services childhood immunization campaign and foreign policy advisor to the U.S. House of Representatives’ Select Committee on Hunger.

Edward Gresser

Director of ProgressiveEconomy Project; 18 years of experience in trade policy includes five years as senior Senate staffer for Senator Max Baucus (D-MT), then three as Policy Advisor to US Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky from 1998 to 2001, where he was twice awarded USTR's Special Achievement Award for contribution to passage of the African Growth and Opportunity Act and to China's accession to the WTO. From 2001 until joining GlobalWorks to launch ProgressiveEconomy in 2011, he led the Trade and Global Markets Project for the Progressive Policy Institute and Democratic Leadership Council. His 2007 book, Freedom from Want: American Liberalism and Global Economy, drew worldwide notice and invitations to testify before several Senate Committees.

Howard Hills

Former Vice President and General Counsel of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation; Civil rights attorney; Peace Corps; National Security Council staff in Reagan and Bush I Administrations.

Orit Frenkel

Senior Manager for International Trade & Investment, General Electric; Over twenty five years experience in international trade and economic policy; Responsible for advising and representing GE businesses on international trade and investment issues in Asia; former USTR trade negotiator with lead responsibility for various bilateral and multilateral trade agreements; member of US Government Industry Sector Advisory Committee on Trade in Services.