Inside International Washington

December 6 - 8, 2006

Edward has worked in all phases of intellectual property practice for Philips Electronics over the last 14 including as North American director for the Philips optical licensing program and as local manager for the Philips IP&S offices in Sunnyvale, CA.

Prior to joining Philips Electronics, Edward worked as a patent attorney in the intellectual property departments of General Electric and Wyeth as well as in private practice. Prior to graduation from law school, Edward worked as an engineer at American Electric Power Company.

Edward graduated from Northeastern University with a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering; from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a master of science in electric power engineering and from Fordham Law School with a jurisdoctorate.

Edward has served as president of the Pacific Intellectual Patent Association and as a member of the New York Intellectual Property Association Board of Directors and presently serves as Chair of the Asian Practice Committee of the Intellectual Property Owners Association.

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He is registered to practice in Connecticut, District of Columbia, Virginia, and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He received his B.S., with honors, in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, his M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Washington State University, and his doctorate in Chemical Engineering/Materials Science from Washington University, St. Louis. He received his J.D. from the University of Connecticut School of Law and his L.L.M. in Intellectual Property/Patent Law from The George Washington University Law School, where he wrote his LL.M. thesis entitled "A Mathematical Approach to Claim Elements and the Doctrine of Equivalents," published in the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, Vol. 16, No. 2, Spring 2003, under Judge Randall R. Rader of the Court of Appeals of Federal Circuit and Professor Martin J. Adelman, as an advisor.

Dr. Davé is currently serving as the Manager of the India Project of the George Washington University School of Law, organizing an annual delegation of intellectual property judges and lawyers to India. He is also the Vice Chair of Asia Practice Committee of the Intellectual Property Owners Association and Programs Committee Member of AIPLA.

Prior to joining Morrison & Foerster LLP, Dr. Davé was a patent attorney at Fish & Richardson, P.C., in Washington D.C. Before entering the legal profession, Dr. Davé held various technical positions in the academia and the industry: Assistant Professor at Michigan Molecular Institute, Research Specialist and Associate Fellow at Monsanto Company, and Senior R&D Scientist at Bayer Corporation.

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Dr. Destler has also taught at Princeton University, the International University of Japan, and the University of Nigeria. And, he has consulted on economic and foreign policy organization at the Executive Office of the President and the Department of State, and on higher education in applied economics and business for USAID/Central Asia.

Dr. Destler has published numerous books including American Trade Politics, (fourth edition, 2005), which won the Gladys M. Kammerer Award by the American Political Science Association, for the best book on U.S. national policy. His recent works include Protecting the American Homeland: One Year On (Brookings Institution, 2003, multiple authors) and Misreading the Public: The Myth of a New Isolationism (Brookings for CISSM, 1999, co-authored with Steven Kull).

Dr. Destler has chaired the Salzburg Seminar on American Politics and the Foreign Policy Process, and served on: the International Affairs Fellowship Committee, Council on Foreign Relations; the Brownlow Prize Committee, National Academy of Public Administration; the Committee on Foreign Policy Studies, Social Science Research Council; the Commission on Government Renewal, Carnegie Endowment and IIE; the Nominating Committee, American Political Science Association; and the Committee on Japan, National Research Council.

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Over 12 years with Reuters, he has previously been posted in London, where he covered European consumer goods and retailing and served as a corporate trainer for the editorial department; in Chicago, covering pharmaceuticals, medical technology and health care; and in New York, covering pharmaceuticals and consumer goods. Before Reuters, he was business editor of The Indianapolis News in Indiana. He earlier was a reporter for small newspapers in Annapolis, Md., and Woodbridge, Va.

He is author of Brands in the Balance: Meeting the Challenges to Commercial Identity (Pearson/Reuters, 2001), a survey of consumer branding and marketing. The book has been translated into five languages. His work regularly appears in top newspapers, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, USA Today and The Los Angeles Times.

Drawbaugh has a master's degree in U.S. history from Indiana University and a bachelor's degree in economics and communication from American University. He has studied at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and at Cemanahuac Comunidad Educativa in Cuernavaca, Mexico. He and his family live in Falls Church, Va.

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He carries extensive experience in export and banking issues. Freedenberg was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to serve as the first Under Secretary for Export Administration at the Department of Commerce. This new Under Secretariat was created by the Congress in order to separate the export control function from export promotion. As Under Secretary, he had principal responsibility for devising, implementing, and enforcing the Department's policies and programs for export administration and the defense industrial base. Prior to serving as Under Secretary from 1987-1989, Freedenberg administered both export control policy and the trade laws, such as anti-dumping and countervailing duty regulations, as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Trade Administration (1985-87).

Prior to his Commerce Department service, for seven years Dr. Freedenberg was Staff Director of the Senate Banking Committee's Subcommittee on International Finance, with jurisdiction over issues such as international trade and finance, technology transfer, and the multilateral banks, such as the International Monetary Fund. He worked for the late Sen. John Heinz (R-PA) and former Sen. Jake Garn (R-UT). Prior to that he was Staff Economist to the Joint Committee on Defense Production, serving the Ranking Republican, Senator Edward Brooke (R-MA). He began his Capitol Hill career as Legislative Assistant to Senator J.Bennett Johnston (D-LA).

From 1989 to 1998, Paul Freedenberg was an international trade consultant with the law firm of Baker & Botts, L.L.P. in Washington, D.C. He specialized in general international trade issues as well as technology transfer, export licensing, export financing, export enforcement, and both foreign and domestic banking and investment issues.

Dr. Freedenberg received his Ph.D. in 1972 from the University of Chicago and was an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana from 1970 to 1976, where he created a new program in national security studies. He is the author or co-author of several articles on export policy and international banking, including "The Commercial Perspective," in Export Controls in Transition, edited by Gary Bertsch and Steven Elliot-Gover (Duke, 1992).

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Vinod teaches strategy, global strategy, and microeconomics of competitiveness on Smith School's MBA and executive MBA programs in College Park and at Smith's overseas campuses in China and Switzerland. His current research involves measuring the knowledge economy at the level of individual states in the United States, a project funded by the IBM Center for Innovation.

Prior to returning to academia in 1989, Vinod worked in industry for some twenty years and held a variety of positions including Vice President (Macmillan Publishers), Manager Sales and Marketing (Falcon Publishing), Manager Coordination (Molins PLC), Marketing Research Executive (Coca-Cola), and Marketing Analyst (FMC). He has also consulted for a number of multinational corporations and has conducted over one hundred executive seminars worldwide.

Vinod has a Ph.D. degree in Strategy and International Management from the University of Maryland at College Park and Master's degrees in Management (UCLA) and Statistics (Indian Statistical Institute). He is a member of Academy of International Business, Academy of Management, Mensa, Strategic Management Society, Maryland/Washington D.C. District Export Council, and the World Affairs Council. He is President Emeritus of the board of directors of the Toledo Area International Trade Association and was on the boards of governors of Ohio's Information Technology Alliance and the IT Alliance for Northwest Ohio during April 2000 - April 2002.

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In addition to his job at the IMF, Loungani teaches in the South Asia Program at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and at the Owen School of Management at Vanderbilt University. His work experience includes stints at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington D.C., the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and the University of Florida. He received B.A. in Economics from the University of Bombay (India) and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Rochester.

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He then served as the Diplomatic Editor of the Indian Express and The Economic Times.

For the past six years, Mr. Nayar has been the Diplomatic Editor and Correspondent for the Americas for The Telegraph and is based in Washington DC. The Telegraph, published from Calcutta, boasts a daily circulation of about 350,000 copies, and is India's fourth largest-selling English newspaper.

Mr. Nayar was honored as a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University during 1986-87 and as Visiting Fellow at The Henry L. Stimson Center, Washington DC in 1996.

His native tongue is Malayalam and is fluent in English, Hindi, Tamil, with a smattering of Russian, Slovak, and Arabic.

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He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and the Campaign Legal Center and of the Board of Trustees of the U.S. Capitol Historical Society. He was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004. His many books include The Permanent Campaign and Its Future; Intensive Care: How Congress Shapes Health Policy, both with Thomas E. Mann; and Debt and Taxes: How America Got Into Its Budget Mess and What to Do About It, with John H. Makin. His latest book, The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and What Can Be Done about It, co-authored with Thomas E. Mann, was published by Oxford University Press on August 1, 2006.

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Nancy E. Roman's 18-year career in Washington, DC spans Capitol Hill, journalism, private business and the not-for-profit world. As Vice President and Director of the Washington Program of the Council on Foreign Relations, Ms. Roman oversees the prestigious meetings program convening Council members with top National and International leaders. She also directs the Council's congressional program in Washington, DC. In this role she has sought to better integrate the ideas generated and honed in the think tank with policymakers in Congress and the administration. Ms. Roman also convenes a regular roundtable focusing on religion and foreign policy that engages representatives of major evangelical organizations, as well as church leaders in the D.C. metro area.

Ms. Roman authored "Both Sides of the Aisle: A Call for Bipartisan Foreign Policy" a Council Special Report published Fall 2005 that analyzes the political polarization in Washington and then proposes steps to build bridges between the parties for dialogue in foreign policy.

Prior to joining the Council, Ms. Roman was president of the G7 Group, a strategic consulting firm that advises Wall Street on how political, legislative, central banking and regulatory developments will affect institutional investments. The firm's more than 120 clients- investment banks, hedge funds and asset management companies, were based in the financial communities of New York, London and Tokyo. Its analysts and economists covered the G7 regions, China and Latin America. As president, Ms Roman oversaw both the business operations as well publication of the firm's daily briefing and consulting operations.

Ms. Roman also spent 10 years as a journalist covering politics, Congress, foreign policy and economics. As congressional bureau chief for The Washington Times, she oversaw both the election and legislative coverage of the national newspaper. Her tenure was noted for its fair treatment of Democrats and Republicans alike. She also worked for several years as a political reporter for the Fort Lauderdale News and Sun Sentinel.

Ms. Roman came to Washington in 1988 as press secretary and foreign affairs adviser for Representative Clay Shaw, Jr., a senior member of the House Ways and Means Committee.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism and French from Baylor University and a Master of Arts degree in International Economics and American Foreign Policy from the John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

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Alistair Scrutton is Editor, Political and General News, Latin America for Reuters Ltd. He is in charge of coverage for the region, focusing on giving clients informed news involving political risk for investors.

Mr. Scrutton spent the last 12 years in Latin America, covering most countries in the continent, including Argentina (with its 2001 economic crisis), Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia (including its recent coups), Venezuela, Chile, Mexico, Brazil and Nicaragua. He also reported on civil conflicts in Haiti.

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V. S. Seshadri obtained his Ph.D in Applied Mathematics from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India and then joined the Indian Foreign Service. He was promoted to Second Secretary in High Commission of India, Nairobi and soon after served as Under Secretary in the United Nations Division of the Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi.

In the late 1980s, he was appointed First Secretary for Trade Policy for the European Community Indian Embassy, and then went on to contribute in Tehran, Iran as Counselor of Commerce and Head of Chancery.

For most of the 1990's he lived in Thailand, serving as the Economic Counselor and Deputy Permanent Representative of India to ESCAP.

He then went back to India to serve as Director (SAARC) in the Ministry of External Affairs, Joint Secretary Investment Promotion in the Ministry of External Affairs, and Joint Secretary (WTO) Ministry of Commerce and Industry.

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Between 1985 and 1988, Mr. Yeutter served as U.S. Trade Representative. While in this position, he maneuvered the 1988 Trade Bill through Congress, helped to launch the 100-nation Uruguay Round of GATT negotiations, and led the American team in negotiating the historic U.S.-Canada free trade agreement. He was involved in numerous other bilateral and multilateral trade negotiations, including some of the United States' most significant efforts with Japan, such as the original U.S.-Japan Semiconductor Arrangement. Mr. Yeutter also helped to put in place provisions to protect American intellectual property, particularly in Asia and Latin America.

In 1989 President Bush named Mr. Yeutter as Secretary of Agriculture, where he served as the Administration's point man in steering the 1990 Farm Bill through Congress. That legislation helped to move U.S. agriculture toward a more market-oriented policy structure, and laid the groundwork for a major expansion in U.S. agricultural exports.

In 1991 Mr. Yeutter was named Republican National Chairman. His efforts there, particularly on redistricting, helped lay the groundwork for the huge Republican wins in Congress and state legislatures in 1994. In 1992 he returned to the Administration to coordinate domestic policy in the Cabinet level post of Counselor to the President.

From 1978-85 Mr. Yeutter served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Under his leadership, the "Merc" launched a host of futures and options products, which have now made it one of the largest private sector financial institutions in the world.

In the early 1970s, Mr. Yeutter held three subcabinet positions in the Nixon and Ford Administrations -- Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Marketing and Consumer Services, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for International Affairs and Commodity Programs, and Deputy Special Trade Representative.

Mr. Yeutter received his law degree, cum laude, from the University of Nebraska in 1963, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif and the National Moot Court team, as well as Editor of the Nebraska Law Review. He simultaneously pursued a Ph.D. program in agricultural economics, completing that degree, with highest honors, in 1966.

Mr. Yeutter is the recipient of numerous public honors, including eight honorary doctorates. He is a director of several major corporations, and he regularly addresses groups throughout the world on trade and agricultural policy.

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