Jennifer Hillman

Jennifer Hillman is a senior fellow for trade and international political economy at the Council on Foreign Relations, specializing in U.S. trade policy, the law and politics of the World Trade Organization, and international organizations. Hillman is also a professor of practice at the Georgetown University Law Center, teaching courses in international business and international trade. She co-authored the leading casebook on trade, “International Trade Law, 3rd ed.,” and her writings have covered the trade war with China, WTO reforms, Brexit, climate change, and carbon taxes. In 2012, she completed her term as one of seven global members serving on the WTO’s Appellate Body. Prior to that, she served as a commissioner at the U.S. International Trade Commission, rendering decisions in more than six hundred investigations regarding injury to U.S. industries caused by imports that were dumped or subsidized, along with decisions in cases involving alleged patent or trademark infringement. Hillman also served as general counsel at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, where she was an ambassador and Chief Textiles Negotiator, and served as legislative director and counsel to Senator Terry Sanford of North Carolina. She serves on the board of visitors at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University and has received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association of Women in International Trade.