The COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting shortages of PPE and pharmaceutical precursors highlighted for Americans the challenge of relying on foreign supply chains for critical goods. Recent supply chain issues for other important goods, including semiconductors and the like, have continued to highlight the economic and national security consequences of not having domestic or allied capacity to address key critical needs. Furthermore, overseas port closures and shortages of shipping containers as well as domestic shortages of warehouse space and qualified truck drivers have further exacerbated the ongoing challenges.
Join the National Security Institute and the House Manufacturing Caucus for a fireside chat that will look at how these problems compound together to cause breakdowns in the supply chain, and how both government and industry can work together to better protect America’s economic and national security and our supply chain for America’s critical goods.
Participants:
- Amy Burke, Head of Global Policy & Strategy at HP
- Kristi Rogers, NSI Advisory Board Member and Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Principal to Principal
- Sarah Stewart, NSI Fellow and Executive Director at Silverado Policy Accelerator
- Moderator: Jessie Liu, NSI Visiting Fellow and former U.S. Attorney for D.C.
Amy Burke is Head of Global Policy & Strategy at HP, where she manages global policy issues, including bilateral and multilateral trade relationships, tariff and non-tariff barriers, digital trade, and supply chain resilience.
Amy has two decades of experience with international trade and technology issues. As the founder of Spinnovation, llc, she provided policy strategies and communication services for high technology companies and trade associations. Previously, Amy was director of government relations for Texas Instruments, responsible for the innovation portfolio. She also served as manager of government affairs for the Semiconductor Industry Association during the first World Trade Organization case against China. She started her career as an international trade specialist at the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Amy earned an MBA from the Darden School at the University of Virginia and an undergraduate degree from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
Kristi M. Rogers has over 25 years’ experience in executive-level problem solving, corporate leadership, risk management, and crisis communications.
Her strategic advice and counsel are regularly sought on issues relating to security and disaster response, federal government contracting, the role of business in complex and dynamic environments (including markets emerging from conflict), public-private partnerships, and crisis communications.
Kristi is currently the Managing Partner and co-founder of Principal to Principal (P2P). Principal to Principal’s CEO Forum brings together senior executive leaders and decision-makers in a private setting to consider new and constructive approaches to today’s multifaceted public policy issues. P2P also assists Boards of Directors and C-suite executives in successfully addressing complex challenges.
A recovering start-up CEO, Kristi successfully launched two companies with extensive overseas operations. The first was Aegis LLC, where she served as President and CEO. Aegis (acquired by GardaWorld) was a leading risk management and security company providing government and corporate clients with a full spectrum of risk management and culturally sensitive security solutions to operational and development challenges around the world.
Following Aegis, Kristi was a co-founder, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Aspen Healthcare Services/Aspen Medical International (AMI). During her tenure, Aspen successfully ran full service medical clinics in Liberia and Sierra Leone, including nine Ebola treatment units in the affected countries.
Rogers’ also held senior positions within the U.S. government including her appointment as Assistant Commissioner at U.S. Customs & Border Protection and as senior official with the U.S. Department of Defense, serving nine months in Iraq.
Kristi currently serves on Qualys Inc.’s Board of Directors. (a publicly traded company), ForgePoint Capital Cyber Advisory Council, the Women’s Foreign Policy Group Board, and Business Executives for National Security’s Board of Directors.
Kristi is also President of the State Society of Michigan and a regular speaker at Michigan State University’s College of Social Science and other institutions.
Sarah V. Stewart is the Executive Director of Silverado Policy Accelerator. Ms. Stewart has nearly two decades of experience as an international trade lawyer, policy expert, and negotiator. Immediately prior to joining Silverado, Ms. Stewart led the public policy efforts at Amazon on U.S. trade policy and export controls matters. From 2013 to 2018, Ms. Stewart worked for the Office of the United States Trade Representative, with her most recent position being the Deputy Assistant United States Trade Representative for Environment and Natural Resources. During her time at USTR, Ms. Stewart was the lead environment chapter negotiator for the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations with the European Union. Prior to joining USTR, Ms. Stewart served in different legal and policy roles at The Humane Society of the United States and Humane Society International, including spearheading a first ever international legal group. Ms. Stewart began her career as a trade lawyer at the Law Offices of Stewart and Stewart, where she worked for six years on behalf of U.S. manufacturing companies and workers.
Jessie Liu currently serves as a Partner, Government Enforcement and White Collar Crime and Litigation at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates, and as an NSI Advisory Board member.
From 2017-20, Ms. Liu served as the Senate-confirmed U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, leading the nation’s largest U.S. attorney’s office. In this role, she oversaw matters of national and international significance involving corruption, fraud and national security. In particular, she obtained resolutions with several international banks for violating U.S. economic sanctions; an international aerospace company on a nearly $4 billion settlement for violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and U.S. export control laws and regulations; and numerous federal contractors and grantees, including former professional cyclist Lance Armstrong, for violations of the False Claims Act. She also created a Threat Finance Unit focused on deterring, disrupting and prosecuting the use of illicit financial flows supporting criminal activity and terrorism. From 2019-20, she also served as chair of the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee, a small group of U.S. attorneys who advise the attorney general and deputy attorney general on issues affecting the U.S. attorney’s offices, after having previously served as a member of the committee from 2017-19.
Prior to joining the U.S. attorney’s office, Ms. Liu was deputy general counsel for the U.S. Department of Treasury. In this role, she provided legal and policy advice to the secretary of the treasury and other senior department officials, with a focus on national security, law enforcement and international issues, such as economic and trade sanctions, anti-money laundering efforts, and national security reviews of foreign acquisitions of U.S. businesses by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States. Between 2006-09, Ms. Liu served in various roles within the U.S. Department of Justice, including as deputy assistant attorney general in the Civil Rights Division, counsel to the deputy attorney general for national security issues and deputy chief of staff for the National Security Division. From 2002-06, she was an assistant U.S. attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for District of Columbia.
During her career, Ms. Liu was a partner at two international law firms, handling government investigations and civil litigation.
Ms. Liu has been recognized as a top 25 lateral hire of 2020 by The American Lawyer and as a White Collar Trailblazer by The National Law Journal. In addition, she has been featured in Global Investigations Review’s Top 100 Women in Investigations and named to Chambers USA.