Kati Suominen

Kati Suominen is an adjunct fellow with the CSIS Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program and focuses especially on digitization, disruptive technologies, and trade. She is also the founder and CEO of the Los Angeles-based Nextrade Group, which helps governments, multilateral development banks, and Fortune 500 technology companies enable trade through technology. Nextrade's clients include the World Bank, International Finance Corporation, Inter-American Development Bank, Asian Development Bank, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Mastercard, Visa, Google, and eBay, among many others. Dr. Suominen has built dozens of data and analytical products and pilot initiatives, as well as eight global initiatives and public-private partnerships to enable digital trade, the most recent being the Alliance for eTrade Development I and II between 14 leading companies and USAID to enable small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) e-commerce in developing nations. She also serves as adjunct professor at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. Earlier in her career, she was a trade economist at the Inter-American Development Bank. Suominen is the author and editor of over 100 papers and 10 peer-reviewed books with leading academic presses, most recently Revolutionizing World Trade: How Disruptive Technologies Open Opportunities for All (Stanford University Press, 2019). She holds a BA from the University of Arkansas, an MA from Boston University, an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, and a PhD from the University of California San Diego. She is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Implications of the EU Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act for U.S. Business
Event by William Alan Reinsch , Kati Suominen , Meredith Broadbent , and Robert Strayer — February 9, 2023

Implications of the European Union’s Digital Regulations on U.S. and EU Economic and Strategic Interests
Report by Kati Suominen — November 22, 2022

Monitoring the Implementation of the CPTPP’s Ecommerce Chapter: Proposed Toolkit and Initial Assessment
Event by William Alan Reinsch , Kati Suominen , Shujiro Urata , Jonathan McHale , and Elisabeth Bowes — October 3, 2022

Monitoring the Implementation of the CPTPP's E-commerce Chapter: Proposed Tool Kit and Initial Assessment
Report by Kati Suominen — October 3, 2022

The CPTPP at Three
Event by William Alan Reinsch , Kati Suominen , Ambassador Robert Holleyman , David Weller , and Deborah Elms — October 28, 2021

The CPTPP’s Impacts on Digital Trade and the Path Forward
Report by Kati Suominen — October 27, 2021

Toward CPTPP 2.0
Report by Kati Suominen — October 15, 2021

Do CPTPP-Style Digital Trade Rules Add New Value?
Report by Kati Suominen — October 14, 2021

CPTPP as a Global “Docking Station” for Free Traders?
Report by Kati Suominen — September 20, 2021

What Do CPTPP Member Country Businesses Think about the CPTPP?
Report by Kati Suominen — August 24, 2021
