William H. Lash, assistant secretary of Commerce and Market Access and Compliance will give a presentation to a seminar class in the Economics Department at the University of New Mexico on Wednesday, May 5, at 1:30 p.m. in the Social Sciences building, room 1052. Lash will speak on international trade and his work around the world in the area of business and finance.
Lash and his team work to ensure that foreign governments fully comply with the more than 250 trade agreements the United States has signed. He is particularly committed to the protection of U.S. investments and intellectual property rights and aggressively engages in the solving of commercial disputes involving foreign governments.
Lash also chairs the Department’s Iraq and Afghanistan Reconstruction Task Forces, which provide information and resources to businesses interested in participating in reconstruction efforts and commerce in these two countries. He also serves as the United States Economic Commissioner to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
Prior to entering government service, he was professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law, Arlington, Va. His areas of teaching and research included international business transactions, international environmental law, regulation of foreign trade, corporate acquisitions and mergers, and corporate finance.
He has served as Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of American Business at Washington University, on the Board of Advisors for the CATO Institute for Trade Policy Studies and as an Adjunct Fellow at Citizens for a Sound Economy. In addition, he has served on the board of directors of publicly traded and privately held corporations. Lash has been the director of several nonprofit corporations and has served as a legal analyst for nearly every major television network in the country.
Contact: Steve Carr (505) 277-1821
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