Meredith Broadbent

Meredith Broadbent is a senior adviser and holds the William M. Scholl Chair in International Business at CSIS. From 2003 to 2008, she served as assistant U.S. trade representative for industry, market access, and telecommunications. In that position, she was responsible for developing U.S. policy affecting trade in industrial goods, telecommunications, and e-commerce. She led the U.S. negotiating team for the Doha Round negotiations to reduce tariff and nontariff barriers on industrial goods and successfully concluded an innovative plurilateral trade agreement with the European Union, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. An expert in trade and development issues, she led an administration initiative to reform a $32-billion trade benefits program for developing countries. Much of her knowledge of U.S. trade relations was gained while serving as a senior professional staff member for the House Ways and Means Committee. In that position, she drafted and managed major portions of the Trade and Development Act of 2000, legislation to authorize normal trade relations with China, and the Trade Act of 2002, which includes trade promotion authority and the Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act. Earlier in her career, Ms. Broadbent served as professional staff for the House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee, where she was instrumental in the development and House passage of the implementing bills for the NAFTA and Uruguay Round Agreements.

Appointed to the Scholl Chair in October 2010, Ms. Broadbent came to CSIS from the Global Business Dialogue, a multinational business association focusing on international trade and investment issues. She holds a B.A. in history from Middlebury College and an M.B.A. from the George Washington University School of Business and Public Management.