Elizabeth Erin Walsh- "Innovation and Exporting: Creating Jobs through Free and Fair Trade" 

Monday, November 13, 2017, 4:45-5:45pm, Adamson Wing

Elizabeth Erin Walsh is the new Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Global Markets (GM) and Director General of the US and Foreign Commercial Service (CS). Ms. Walsh will oversee a global network of trade promotion and policy professionals located in more than seventy-five countries and over 100 U.S. cities.

Ms. Walsh earned a bachelor’s degree in International Relations and American Government from Georgetown University, and a master’s degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She brings more than twenty-five years of management experience to the Department of Commerce, including over a decade at the Department of State, with international organizations and the private sector. Ms. Walsh has traveled or worked in 100 countries, and has extensive knowledge of foreign and economic affairs in Asia, Middle East, and Africa.

Most recently, Ms. Walsh was employed at the White House as Special Assistant to President Trump. Prior to that she was an executive director at Goldman Sachs in Asia Pacific.

Sponsored by the Center for International Relations and Politics and the Institute for Strategic Analysis