NY, NJ, and Washington, DC licensed international business, regulatory, tax and trade lawyer. Managing Attorney, Sound Science Business Strategies, LLC and President, Institute for Trade, Standards and Sustainable Development (ITSSD). 22 years experience counseling trade associations, public and private internationally-focused businesses operating within the commercial, financial services, life sciences, and information & communication technology sectors, as well as, national governments, including former Bush administration executive agencies, and U.S. Congressional subcommittee chairs and professional staff, how to reduce asset, operations and tax risks triggered by evolving foreign and international laws, regulations, taxes, standards, and WTO, WIPO, UNEP, UNCLOS treaties and customary international law.

Member: Association of the Bar of the City of New York, where previously served on International Trade Committee member and as a liaison to the International Environmental Law Committee; Customs and International Trade Bar Association; International Law Association, American Branch, Committee on the Formation of Rules of Customary International Law; U.S. Advisory Group on Rulemaking, in connection with the now completed American Bar Association Project on EU Administrative Law and Process.

Adjunct Professor of International Trade Law, Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University; Guest lecturer/panelist: Georgetown University Medical School; Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Vyatka State University, Russian Federation; University of Miami School of Law; Temple University Beasley School of Law; National Defense University; Harvard Kennedy School of Government; EurasiaBIO International Congress for Biotechnology, Yu.A. Ovchinnikov Russian Society of Biotechnologists; XXth Annual Forum da Liberdade, the Instituto de Estudos Empresariais (IEE), Porto Alegre, Brasil; BIOKorea Conference, Cheongju, South Korea. Publications: Book chapter ( India ); Law reviews (US); Law, diplomacy, economic & political journals (US, Europe); Trade magazines (US, Europe); News media articles (US, Europe, Oceania ).

LL.M. Taxation, Georgetown University Law Center; J.D., University of Miami School of Law; B.A., Philosophy/Political Theory, Boston University.