Andrea Durkin leads international policy and engagement for the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM). As the largest manufacturing association in the United States, the NAM represents manufacturers of all sizes, in every industrial sector, and in all 50 states. Ms. Durkin and her team develop and advocate for trade policies that work for the success of the more than 13 million people who make things in America.

Before joining the NAM, Ms. Durkin served as Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for WTO and Multilateral Affairs at the Office of the United States Trade Representative, where she was responsible for trade negotiations and U.S. policy coordination regarding matters before the World Trade Organization including WTO committees related to industrial subsidies, technical barriers to trade, customs and trade facilitation, government procurement and other subject areas.  Ms. Durkin also led the development of U.S. trade positions in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and intergovernmental forums such as G7 and G20.

Ms. Durkin returned to U.S. Government service after two decades in the private sector as an entrepreneur, author, and corporate global government relations executive for a Fortune 200 life sciences company. She has served as a non-resident senior fellow and advisor to leading think tanks in Washington, Dallas and Chicago on trade policy, economic growth, and food and agricultural trade.

Over the span of a decade of previous government service with USTR and the International Trade Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce, Ms. Durkin led negotiations that included free trade agreements in the Western Hemisphere, the trade-related aspects of United Nations multilateral environment and public health agreements, and sectoral initiatives in APEC.

Ms. Durkin has proudly taught hundreds of students International Trade and Investment Policy for twenty years as an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University’s Master of Science in Foreign Service program and served as president of the Women in International Trade association.