Katrin Kuhlmann

Prof. Katrin Kuhlmann is the President and Founder of the New Markets Lab; a Professor of Graduate and International Programs at Georgetown University Law Center; co-founder and Faculty Director of the Georgetown Law Center on Inclusive Trade and Development; and a non-resident Senior Associate with the Global Food Security Project of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). She also serves as a member of the Trade Advisory Committee on Africa of the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR). With nearly 30 years of experience, her work and research focus on international trade law and regional trade agreements, law and development, comparative law, digital law and regulation, agricultural law and food security, trade and infrastructure corridors, and empirical and interdisciplinary approaches to international law. She also has experience in other economic legal and regulatory issues—including investment, financial regulation, intellectual property rights, and energy—at the domestic and international levels. She is widely published, and she has testified before Congress on trade and development issues.

Prof. Kuhlmann founded NML in 2010 as a non-profit law and development center and has designed and managed NML’s growing body of global legal and regulatory design and implementation projects. She has worked extensively around the world in partnership with NML’s network of partners and donors, which have included the United Nations, the Gates Foundation, the World Bank, the International Food Policy Research Institute, and the World Economic Forum. At Georgetown Law, where she holds a full-time teaching appointment, she teaches courses in international law, development, and international trade.

Prof. Kuhlmann sits on a number of non-profit boards and advisory boards, including the Advisory Boards of the Law and International Development Societies (LIDS) at Harvard and Georgetown Law Schools, the Trade and Investment Law Group of the Law Schools Global League, the Yeutter Institute of International Trade and Finance at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the International Advisory Network of the Forum on Trade, Environment, and the SDGs of the Graduate Institute and UN Environment Programme, and the Stakeholder Advisory Board for AI for Food Systems of the University of California Davis. She is also a member of the Bretton Woods Committee and WTO Gender Research Hub and serves on the boards of the Washington International Trade Association, Listening for America, and Malaika Foundation.

She was previously a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, the Yeutter Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Nebraska College of Law - Clayton Yeutter Institute of International Trade and Finance, and a trade negotiator at USTR, and she practiced international law at Skadden Arps and Dewey Ballantine. She has also held leadership positions in several non-profit organizations and think tanks, including positions as a Senior Fellow and Director at the Aspen Institute and a Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund. She holds degrees from Harvard Law School and Creighton University and was the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship to study international economics.