Felicia Pullam is Senior Director of International Supply Chain Policy at the National Foreign Trade Council, the leading business association dedicated solely to advancing the interests of U.S. companies in international commerce.

She has 25 years of experience working with global companies on issues around trade, investment, and supply chains.

Prior to joining NFTC, she was Senior Director at APCO’s Washington D.C. office. She previously served as executive director of the Office of Trade Relations at U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which is CBP’s primary point of contact for private sector and stakeholder engagement. As an advisor to the commissioner, Felicia worked on a wide range of trade challenges, including forced labor, de minimis reform, and illicit trade.

Felicia has worked on bipartisan trade and investment from both the state and federal perspective: she has served in the Office of Delaware Governor Jack Markell, as well as at the Maryland Department of Commerce and the U.S. Department of Commerce. During the Obama administration, Felicia helped steer SelectUSA, a presidential initiative housed within Commerce, through a high-pressure start-up phase to promote the United States as the leading global destination for foreign direct investment. Felicia was then appointed to be the deputy assistant secretary for textiles, consumer goods and materials, where she managed three offices to analyze and implement trade policy covering a large swath of the global economy.

Outside of government service, Felicia served as the director of strategy at the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service. Earlier in her career, she spent nearly a decade in China, leading the Asia regional corporate responsibility and sustainability practice for APCO.

Felicia got her start as a Princeton in Asia Fellow, followed by a yearlong adventure as the tutor and translator for actress Zhang Ziyi. She graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University.

Gary Haglund is Senior Director for International Tax Policy at the National Foreign Trade Council, the leading business association dedicated solely to advancing the interests of U.S. companies in international commerce.

Before joining the National Foreign Trade Council, Gary led federal advocacy efforts on tax, trade, and industrial policy for the main trade association representing the automotive industry.

He also worked in the United States Senate for Senator Bill Cassidy handling tax and trade issues for the Senator’s Senate Finance Committee assignment. He also led federal and state tax and financial services policy for a grassroots advocacy organization and served as policy advisor for the House Committee on the Budget.

Gary graduated from Ashland University with a B.A. in political science and history. He received his M.A. in political science from Boston College.

Brad Wood is Senior Director for Trade and Innovation Policy at the National Foreign Trade Council, the leading business association dedicated solely to advancing the interests of U.S. companies in international commerce.

Brad previously served in consecutive roles at the Embassy of Canada where he was most recently the Trade Program Manager for Innovation and Industrial Policy and the U.S. representative for Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada. In this capacity Brad advanced Canada-U.S. cooperation bilaterally and with third countries, and worked with the Administration, Congress and business sector to ensure policies support open trade and the integrated North American market.

Prior to the Embassy, Brad worked in several capacities for the Government of Canada in Ottawa where he shaped international policy priorities, coordinated appropriations, mitigated technical barriers to trade, and represented Canada internationally, including at the World Trade Organization.

Brad holds a Master’s in International Trade from the University of Saskatchewan and a Bachelor of Business Administration with an economics double major from Brandon University.

Jeannette L. Chu is Vice President for National Security Policy at the National Foreign Trade Council, the leading business association dedicated to advancing the interests of U.S. companies in international commerce, and the Executive Director of NFTC’s Alliance for National Security and Competitiveness.

She advises and advocates for the business community on national security issues including export controls, sanctions, forward technologies, foreign investment security and strategic competition with China. Concurrently, Jeannette is also a non-resident senior associate with the Trustee Chair for China Business and Economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) providing thought leadership U.S.-China national security matters. She is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

A recognized authority on export controls, sanctions and foreign investment security programs in the U.S. and other countries, Jeannette previously founded and led the national security regulatory compliance practice at Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) guiding multinational companies in navigating complex regulatory requirements, building effective trade compliance programs and performing government-directed compliance audits.

Jeannette had a 31 year public service career as a diplomat and law enforcement officer. She was the longest-serving American diplomat in China, with roles including Export Control Attaché at the US Embassy Beijing and Officer-In-Charge for the Immigration & Naturalization Service in Guangzhou and Beijing. Jeannette also served as the Senior Policy Advisor at the Bureau of Industry & Security, U.S. Department of Commerce. She has received numerous awards throughout her government career including the Commerce Secretary’s Gold, Silver and Bronze Awards, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service Commissioner’s Award.

Jeannette serves on the Board of the National Council for International Trade Development and the Executive Board for Ascend Greater Washington Chapter where she also volunteers as a mentor. She is a mentor for the Women’s Foreign Policy Group and other organizations. Jeannette is a sought-after speaker and frequent writer on U.S.-China relations and national security, technology leadership and economic security issues. She holds a BA in Political Science from The American University, Washington, DC.

Susan C. Schwab serves as Chair of the NFTC Board of Directors and strategic advisor in Mayer Brown’s International Trade practice.

Ambassador Schwab’s advisory role for NFTC and Mayer Brown is in addition to both her professorship at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, where previously she served as Dean, and as President of the University System of Maryland Foundation. From 2005-2009 she served as US Trade Representative (USTR) and Deputy USTR in the George W. Bush administration. Ambassador Schwab also sits on several corporate and non-profit boards, and is a frequent speaker at associations, corporations, and think tanks. In 2022, she became board chair of the National Foreign Trade Council (NFTC).

During her tenure as USTR, Ambassador Schwab successfully opened markets for US products and services in every region of the world and across a variety of business sectors and industries. She concluded the United States’ Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) with Peru, Colombia and South Korea and launched the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) talks. Ambassador Schwab helped to achieve congressional approval of FTAs with Oman and Peru, as well as the bipartisan “May 10th, 2007” agreement on trade, labor and the environment. Additionally, she negotiated in the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Doha Round with major economic powers including the European Union, China, India, Brazil and Indonesia; helped to lead US bilateral WTO accession negotiations with Russia; and engaged in those with Vietnam. Finally, she filed, pursued and resolved multiple cases in defense of US commercial interests with Canada, China, the EU and others.

Ambassador Schwab has more than three decades of international trade and policy experience. She began her career in the USTR’s office as a trade negotiator for agriculture issues. After two years, she headed to Tokyo, where she served as a Trade Policy Officer at the American Embassy. She later spent 8 years working for Sen. John Danforth (R-MO), first as Chief Economist and Legislative Assistant for International Trade and then as Legislative Director. In 1989 Ambassador Schwab became the Director General of the US & Foreign Commercial Service at the US Department of Commerce, where she oversaw 200 international and domestic field offices with 1300 employees and a budget totaling $115 million. Following that, she worked as a senior executive at a major US company negotiating deals to access the Chinese market.

Patty provides administrative support for NFTC staff and activities. She assists with the day-to-day operation of the office, interacts with vendors, and is responsible for member and staff event planning.

Marshall Lane is the Chief Administrative Officer at the National Foreign Trade Council. He is responsible for the overall management of the day to day operations of the organization, including budgeting, purchasing, information technology and member services.

Veronica Berkshire, joined the NFTC in November 2016 as Senior Director for Communications and Development.

Prior to joining NFTC, Veronica was Press Secretary at the Embassy of Colombia in Washington D.C., where she was responsible for the Embassy’s overall communications strategy, including press outreach and social media presence.

Veronica is a native of Bogota, Colombia and holds a bachelor’s degree in International Relations and Political Science from Tufts University in Boston, MA.

Anne Gordon is Vice President for International Tax Policy at the National Foreign Trade Council, the leading business association dedicated solely to advancing the interests of U.S. companies in international commerce.

Anne oversees the development and execution of NFTC’s tax policy strategy, including efforts to ensure the development of tax policies that strengthen U.S. companies’ competitiveness abroad and spur economic growth and job creation. She leads NFTC’s international tax work on legislative, regulatory, non-U.S. tax policy, OECD Inclusive Framework, digital taxation and European Union tax issues as well as tax treaty activity, bilateral tax relationships, and cooperation with multilateral forums. She is a frequent commentator on international tax issues and is regularly quoted in domestic and international press. Anne has also provided expert testimony before the U.S. Congress and the Australian Parliament as well as interventions at the OECD and the United Nations.

Anne previously served in the U.S. Senate as Tax Counsel to two Senators, Rob Portman and Todd Young, of the Senate Finance Committee. During her time in the Senate, Ms. Gordon was one of the lead staff involved in drafting the tax provisions of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.

She has also worked in the International Tax Services practice of PwC’s National Tax Services office, where she gained experience on a wide array of U.S. international tax issues including cross-border mergers and acquisitions and issues arising in the context of anti-deferral regimes, including Sub-part F. She also advised clients on debt issuance and modification, foreign currency issues, treaty benefits, GILTI, section 163(j), FDII and BEAT.

She has also held several positions in the U.S. Departments of Energy and the Treasury and clerked at the U.S. Tax Court for Judges Tamara W. Ashford, Mark V. Holmes, Richard T. Morrison, and Robert A. Wherry, Jr.

Anne graduated from The George Washington University with a B.A. in Classical Studies and Political Science, and an M.P.P. focusing on business-government relations. She received her J.D. from Boston College Law School and her LL.M. in Taxation with a certificate in International Taxation from Georgetown University Law Center.