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Honorable Lauri J. Fitz-Pegado Lauri Fitz-Pegado is a partner at The Livingston Group, LLC, which provides public affairs, government relations and strategic communications counsel to governments, corporations, educational institutions and non-profit organizations. She contributes to the development of new business strategies, proposals and presentations for TLG and is the Director of the International Relations/Business Development Practice Group. She currently provides services to domestic and international clients including the Governments of Azerbaijan, Egypt and the Republic of Congo; SASOL, the world’s largest synthetic fuels company based in South Africa; the Bank of the Netherlands Antilles, Apex Mining, Case Western Reserve University, the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC), and the Investment Company Institute. She served as Assistant Secretary and Director General of the U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service at the Department of Commerce, promoting U.S. exports and assisting U.S. companies expand market share and compete for contracts around the world. She managed 130 export promotion offices overseas and 90 offices in the United States. She also directed Commerce’s Africa Task Force leading the reorganization of commercial offices in Africa, the US-South Africa Business Council and numerous trade missions to Africa and other big emerging markets throughout the world. Appointed by President Clinton and confirmed by the Senate in 1994, she served under the late Secretary Ronald H. Brown, Secretaries Mickey Kantor and William Daley. She was Director for Public Liaison of the first Clinton-Gore Inaugural and advisor on international issues to Democratic Committee Chairman Ronald H. Brown. In 1997 she joined Iridium LLC, the world's first global satellite and paging company, where she was Vice President for Global Gateway Management and Vice President for Corporate Affairs and Communications. A former foreign service officer who served in the Dominican Republic and Mexico, Ms. Fitz-Pegado also provided domestic and international clients strategic communications counsel, public and government relations services over eleven years at Gray and Company and Hill and Knowlton. Ms. Fitz-Pegado is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Washington Government Relations Group. She serves on the boards of the Constituency for Africa, the National Education Association Foundation and the American and African Business Women’s Alliance. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Vassar College and has a Master of Arts degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. She speaks Spanish and Portuguese. lfitzp@livingstongroupdc.com |
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