Driving Health, Innovation, and Economic Opportunity Through Data and [International] Trade

Global commerce depends on the ability to use information and communication technology (ICT) networks and the Internet to conduct business across borders. Cross-border data transfers are essential to innovation, US jobs, exports, and  business in the agriculture, automotive, aerospace, finance, health, media, software, and telecommunications sectors, among others.

On Friday, March 14, WITA hosted a webinar to examine efforts to create a predictable and stable international framework to ensure the secure and responsible movement of information across borders.

Featured Speakers:

Stephen Claeys, Senior Director, Global Trade Policy, Pfizer

Josh Kallmer, Head of Global Public Policy and Government Relations, Zoom Communications, Inc.

Marta Prado, Director, Global Government Engagement, Visa

Andrew Wayne, Managing Director, Digital, Tax & Trade Policy, Siemens U.S. Government Affairs

Moderator: Nigel Cory, Director, Crowell Global Advisors

Speaker Biographies:

Stephen Claeys is Senior Director, Trade Policy at Pfizer. In addition to covering trade issues involving Europe, Australia, New Zealand and the ASEAN region, he is responsible for developing policy regarding trade-related pharmaceutical and IP pricing issues, digital trade and customs.
Steve has over 25 years of experience advising members of Congress, senior White House and U.S. Department of Commerce officials, and the private sector on international trade law and policy. He has served as Trade Counsel for the U.S. House of Representatives for the Committee on Ways & Means’ Subcommittee on Trade, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping/Countervailing Duty Operations at the U.S. Department of Commerce, Import Administration and as Special Advisor on National Security Affairs in the White House, Office of the Vice President.
Steve received his B.A., with high honors, from the University of Notre Dame and his J.D. from the Northwestern University School of Law.

Marta M. Prado is Director of Global Government Engagement at Visa Inc. based in Washington, DC. In her role, Ms. Prado supports the company’s global business priorities and leads engagements on policy and international trade with U.S. and foreign government officials, international organizations, advocacy groups, trade associations, and thought leaders. Ms. Prado serves on the Services Industry Trade Advisory Committee (ITAC 10) advising the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) on international trade policy.

Before joining Visa, she worked at USTR, most recently serving as Deputy Assistant USTR for Southeast Asia & the Pacific and the Acting Assistant USTR for Southeast Asia & the Pacific, with responsibility for developing and implementing U.S. trade policy across the region. Earlier in her career, she practiced international trade law at the Law Offices of Stewart & Stewart.

Ms. Prado holds a Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center as well as a Bachelor of Arts from Georgetown University.

Josh Kallmer is Head of Global Public Policy and Government Relations for Zoom Communications, Inc. (Zoom). In this capacity, he oversees the development and execution of
Zoom’s global public policy and government relations strategy and serves as the company’s chief representative before governments around the world.

From 2015 to 2020, Josh was Executive Vice President of Policy for the Information Technology
Industry Council (ITI), a business association of more than 70 of the world’s most innovative
companies. Before joining ITI, Josh was counsel in the International Trade and International
Dispute Resolution groups of Crowell & Moring LLP, where he helped major multinational
companies overcome regulatory and market access barriers, enforce their rights in foreign
markets, and otherwise mitigate the policy and geopolitical risks they faced when operating
overseas. From 2007 to 2012, Josh served as Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for
Investment, where he was responsible for developing and implementing U.S. international
investment policy and negotiating with foreign governments to secure greater market access and better treatment for U.S. companies abroad. From 1999 to 2004, Josh was an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Hogan & Hartson LLP, where he practiced in the areas of international litigation and arbitration and international trade.

Josh is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and speaks and writes frequently on
global economic and technology policy issues. He graduated with honors from Stanford University and received his law degree, cum laude, from Georgetown University.

Andrew Wayne is the Managing Director for Digital, Tax and Trade Policy on the Federal Affairs team at Siemens. Andrew joined Siemens in 2020 to support the tax and trade portfolio, which he will maintain while growing the team focus on policies impacting advanced manufacturing, such as research, incentives, AI and cybersecurity. Andrew spent ten years on Capitol Hill covering a range of policy issues, including the establishment of the Manufacturing USA program, advancing the Tax Cuts & Jobs Act and serving as Chief of Staff.

Nigel Cory is a director with Crowell Global Advisors focusing on cross-border data flows, data governance, intellectual property, and how they each relate to digital trade and the broader digital economy. Nigel has provided in-person testimony and written submissions and has published reports and op-eds relating to these issues in the United States, the European Union, Australia, China, India, and New Zealand, among other countries and regions, and he has completed research projects for international bodies such as the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation and the World Trade Organization. Nigel is a member of the United Kingdom’s International Data Transfer Expert Council and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)’s Data Free Flow with Trust Expert Community.

He previously covered trade and digital policy at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. Nigel also previously worked as a researcher in the Southeast Asia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Prior to that, he worked for eight years in Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, which included positions working on G20 global economic and trade issues and the Doha Development Round. Cory also had diplomatic postings in Malaysia, where he worked on bilateral and regional trade, economic, and security issues, and in Afghanistan, where he was the deputy director of a joint U.S.-Australia provincial reconstruction team. Nigel holds a master’s degree in public policy from Georgetown University and a bachelor’s degree in international business and commerce from Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia.

This event is part of our Digital Trade Series sponsored by the National Foreign Trade Council (NFTC).