Courtney Fingar and I contend that restrictions on exports to protect security must be paired with opening markets for our tech products to both retain global leadership and advance economic development.

Thanks to Roberto Izurieta, Alternate Executive Director of the IDB, and Paul Quirk (on right) for hosting an engaging discussion with Soledad Peña Plaza (center), Chargé d'Affaires, Embassy of Ecuador to the US. Joined by The Wilson Center colleagues Facundo Robles and Margaret Myers (next to me)

Kennedy said that there is sharp focus from “both the [Biden] administration and Congress that we not allow USMCA to be a back door for Chinese goods that we were otherwise hoping to not be included in American supply chain.”

Briefed Rep. Greg Stanton (AZ-04) and Rep. Lucy McBath (GA-07) with Wilson Center colleagues Benjamin Gedan, Kellee Wicker and Diego Marroquin.

Conversation with Francisco Sagasti, former President of the Republic of Peru, and Alexia Latortue, Assistant Secretary for International Trade and Development, US Department of the Treasury.

Photo with Congressman Joaquin Castro (D-TX) and leadership of the Mexico Institute - Lila Abed and Andrew Rudman.

Narrowing in to understand the trade relationships between China and strategic sectors in the Western Hemisphere should be a fundamental task for [the China select] committee and the 118th Congress to undertake. Ideally, this would lead to actionable results providing tangible economic opportunities for the U.S. and its partners in the region.

Hosted by the Brazilian Association of Institutional and Governmental Relations (Abrig) and the National Confederation of Industry (CNI)

With students in front of Brazil's Capitol.

London Business School Alumni at Fundação Getulio Vargas.