{"id":6802,"date":"2022-06-22T10:38:22","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T14:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/iiel\/initiatives\/citd\/our-people\/katrin-kuhlmann\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:08:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:08:32","slug":"katrin-kuhlmann","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/iiel\/initiatives\/citd\/our-people\/katrin-kuhlmann\/","title":{"rendered":"Katrin Kuhlmann"},"content":{"rendered":"

Director and Co-Founder, Center on Inclusive Trade and Development<\/h2>\n

\"Katrin<\/p>\n

Katrin Kuhlmann is currently a Professor, Graduate and International Programs and the Faculty Director and Co-founder of the Center on Inclusive Trade and Development at Georgetown University Law Center.\u00a0 In 2010, Professor Kuhlmann founded the New Markets Lab (NML), a non-profit law and development innovation lab focused on inclusive legal and regulatory design and field-based law and development programs.\u00a0 She is also a Senior Associate with the Global Food Security Program of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), and she serves as a member of the Trade Advisory Committee on Africa of the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR).<\/p>\n

Professor Kuhlmann brings uniquely diverse experience to her role at CITD.\u00a0 Her career began in private legal practice with a focus on international trade, energy, and project finance, followed by a move to USTR, where she negotiated and led initiatives in areas including non-tariff measures, intellectual property rights in developing economies, and trade and development. She also designed and led negotiation of a regional Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) with Central Asia, which was the first economic agreement of its kind that is still used as a basis for economic engagement and development in the region.\u00a0 After leaving USTR, she focused on how trade and development work in the field, founding and leading non-profit and think tank initiatives focused on trade and gender, regional trade with and within Africa, food security, special and differential treatment, and trade preference programs.\u00a0 In addition to Georgetown Law, she has taught at Harvard Law School and the University of Nebraska College of Law.\u00a0 Her research, teaching, and work focus on international law and development, inclusive and sustainable international trade law, regional trade agreements, agricultural law and food security, comparative economic law, African trade and development law and corridors, and the interdisciplinary connections between law and development.\u00a0 She has consistently worked to bring a micro, bottom-up approach into the classroom, legal scholarship, and high level policy discussions while helping to shape the future of inclusive and sustainable trade and development.<\/p>\n

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