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Home page  Experts Terence R. Murphy
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Terence R. MurphySenior Associate (Non-resident), Business and Economics, Science and Technology |
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Trade & Economics
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International law and policy; munitions and dual-use technology transfer and economic sanctions; constitutional law; business and economics |
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(202) 213-7377
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Terence Murphy is chairman of MK Technology, a worldwide trade-controls management consultancy based in Washington, D.C. Since the early 1980s, he has had extensive practice in commercial diplomacy. Since the late 1960s, he has had a broad legal background in antitrust, constitutional, corporate, telecommunications, and other legal-regulatory areas. He has substantial high-level experience in strategic technology transfer, including dual-use and munitions exports, encryption, technology transfer in universities, and economic sanctions. Current issues include technology transfer to China and India, within the academic and research communities, and within North American, European, Pacific, and Middle East defense and other industries. In 2000–2001, he was named by successive secretaries of commerce to the Bureau of Industry and Security’s advisory committee on strategic trade regulation. He is a longtime board member of the Industry Coalition on Technology Transfer. He devised the legislative and diplomatic strategy removing trade sanctions from the Iran and Libya Sanctions Act, setting the stage for later changes in U.S. policy. As lead advocate and negotiator for a British firm swept up in an "economic-warfare" operation against the former USSR, he helped reach a resolution at heads-of-government level. For this and other contributions to British-American relations, he was appointed an honorary O.B.E. in 1993. Formerly resident in Brussels, he is the foreign trade adviser to the Belgian embassy in Washington. In 2007, he was appointed a knight Officer (O.L.) of the Order of Leopold, the highest grade open to non-Belgian private citizens in that country’s most senior honorary Order. The author of articles on strategic trade, antidumping and international trade, product liability, and transatlantic diplomacy in U.S. and foreign journals, he has spoken on those topics in many countries and on the BBC, NPR, and German radio, as well as on military and strategic issues at Harvard University. He is an active contributor to CSIS white papers and reports on strategic technology transfer and defense cooperation, and he has advised the Commerce and Defense Departments and the National Academy of Sciences in those areas. He contributed to a CSIS white paper that led to the landmark December 2007 report, The Deemed Export Rule in the Era of Globalization. (He was the first public witness before the Deemed Export Advisory Committee whose membership was closely linked to the CSIS white paper.) For a decade he has chaired the Global Trade Controls conferences held annually in Europe and occasionally in Asia. A member of the American Law Institute and for three decades of the Michigan Law School’s Committee of Visitors, he is also a past member of the ABA’s Administrative Law Council. He is a graduate of Harvard University and the University of Michigan, earning a J.D. in public and international law from the latter with highest honors then awarded, and was a maritime trial lawyer in the Department of Justice Honors Program. Before studying law, he was a Cold War assault craft, gunnery, and flagship CIC officer in the Sixth Fleet; a destroyer gunnery officer and nuclear-weapons and missile officer in the Atlantic Fleet; and an operations/weapons officer and aide to the commander of an amphibious ready group in Cuban waters. As a junior lieutenant, he was commended by the Atlantic Fleet’s commander-in-chief for outstanding performance in the Cuban Missile Crisis. In 2005, he was awarded the first citation by the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) for pro bono publico service to the RSC in America including conception, and assistance in negotiation, of the RSC’s extended residency at the University of Michigan. |
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