Dr. Paula Stern is the former chairwoman of the US International Trade Commission. She is the founder and president of The Stern Group and Senior Strategic Advisor to the National Center for Women & Information Technology. Stern is a member of the board of directors of the Washington Institute of Foreign Affairs, legacy trustee at the Committee for Economic Development, lifetime director of the Atlantic Council, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Inter-American Dialogue. She has a B.A. from Goucher College, an M.A. in Regional Studies from Harvard University, a Ph.D. in International Affairs from Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and honorary degrees in Law from Goucher College and Commercial Science from Babson College.