Meredith Broadbent

Meredith Broadbent serves as a senior adviser (non-resident) with the Scholl Chair in International Business at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. A former chair of the U.S. International Trade Commission, she was assistant U.S. trade representative for industry, market access, and telecommunications from 2002-2008. In that position, she was responsible for developing U.S. policy that affected trade in industrial goods, telecommunications, and e-commerce. She led the U.S. negotiating team for the Doha Round negotiations to reduce tariff and nontariff barriers on industrial goods. From 2008 to 2010, she was a trade adviser at the Global Business Dialogue. Earlier in her career, Broadbent served as a senior professional staff member with the Committee on Ways and Means of the U.S. House of Representatives, where she drafted and managed major portions of the Trade and Development Act of 2000, legislation to authorize normal trade relations with China, and the Trade Act of 2002, which included trade promotion authority. She was instrumental in the development and House passage of the implementing bills for the North American Free Trade Agreement and Uruguay Round Agreements. Broadbent holds a bachelor’s of arts in history from Middlebury College and a master’s of business administration from the George Washington University School of Business and Public Management.
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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

U.S.-UK Trade Agreement: Now Is the Time
Report by Meredith Broadbent — January 23, 2023

Assessing the TTC and the Transatlantic Alliance
Event by Meredith Broadbent , William Alan Reinsch , and Max Bergmann — December 12, 2022

The Europeans Are Coming
Commentary by Meredith Broadbent — December 1, 2022

Taking the Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity as an ‘Opening Bid’ to Go Bigger
Commentary by Daniel F. Runde , Meredith Broadbent , and Henry Ziemer — June 29, 2022

Making Medical Supply Chains More Secure
Event by William Alan Reinsch , Meredith Broadbent , Rep. Adrian Smith (R-NE) , Carlos Da Costa , Maria Rocío Vargas Carrasquilla , César Remis , and John Layton — June 14, 2022

Securing Medical Supply Chains with Trusted Trade Partners
Report by Meredith Broadbent — April 29, 2022

Digital Trade in the European Union: Perspectives on Platform Regulation Proposals
Event by William Alan Reinsch , Meredith Broadbent , and Peter Harrell — November 12, 2021

Digital Trade in the European Union
Event by William Alan Reinsch , Meredith Broadbent , Dr. Michael Mandel , Tyson Barker , and Benedikt Blomeyer — November 4, 2021

Ensuring a More Competitive North America
Event by Ryan C. Berg , Meredith Broadbent , Trevor Kennedy , Robert Blair , and Ernesto Flores — October 26, 2021
