Broadbent Sworn in as ITC Commissioner

September 11, 2012

On September 11, 2012, the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) announced that Meredith Broadbent, a Republican from Virginia, has been sworn in as an ITC Commissioner for a term expiring on June 16, 2017. Commissioner Broadbent replaces Commissioner Deanna Tanner Okun as a member of the ITC. President Obama nominated Broadbent on November 8, 2011 and the Senate confirmed her on August 2, 2012.

Prior to her appointment, Broadbent held the William M. Scholl Chair in International Business at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. From 2009 to 2010 she was a Trade Advisor at the Global Business Dialogue, a multinational business association that focuses on international trade and investment issues. From 2003 to 2008 Broadbent served as Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Industry, Market Access, and Telecommunications. Broadbent has also served as a senior professional staff member on the Republican staff of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Ways and Means, and as professional staff for the house Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee. In these positions, Broadbent was involved in the development and passage of the implementing bills for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the Uruguay Round Agreements, as well as the drafting of portions of the Trade and Development Act of 2000, legislation to authorize normal trade relations with China, and the Trade Act of 2002.

Broadbent received her Bachelors of Arts degree in history from Middlebury College and her Masters of Business Administration from the George Washington University School of Business and Public Management.