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Charlotte Hebebrand
IPC Chief Executive
Charlotte brings to IPC a great deal of experience in international development, trade, and agriculture. She came to IPC from the European Commission's Washington Delegation, where she served as Special Advisor in the Development Section, the Trade Section, and the Agriculture & Food Safety Sections. Prior to her time with the EC, Charlotte also worked at the Brookings Institution's Foreign Policy Division. Charlotte has a B.A. from Georgetown University and a M.A. in International Relations and Economics from Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Relations. Between college and graduate school, Charlotte worked four years for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on the development of its permanent exhibition. Having grown up in Germany, Charlotte is bilingual and also speaks Spanish and French. She lives in Washington with her husband, Carlos Madero, and their two children.
Christine St. Pierre
Research Assistant
Raised on a family farm involved in both livestock and crop production, Christine's interest in agriculture developed at an early age. She attended California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Business with a concentration in Policy. Her senior thesis focused on the relationship between U.S. farm policy and cotton growers in West Africa. While an undergraduate, she spent a year in China studying Mandarin. She joins IPC as Research Assistant, where her responsibilities include project development research, meeting planning, budgeting, and accounting procedures.
Tamara White
IPC Treasurer and Secretary (Pro-bono)
Tamara is the Senior Director of Commodities of the Governmental Affairs and Commodities Division for the Illinois Farm Bureau. She is responsible for the management of all Commodities Department activities and programs. Tamara serves as the major resource person on commodity and food industry issues, including biotechnology and international trade. She also works with organizational, legislative, and regulatory efforts on related issues. Tamara was Assistant Executive Director at the International Food & Agricultural Trade Policy Council (IPC) from 1988-1995. Tamara also has served as the Treasurer and Secretary of IPC since 1995. Tamara earned a B.A. with distinction in International Relations from Stanford University and a M.B.A. from Virginia Polytechnic and State University.
Marcia Wiss
IPC Counsel (Pro-bono)
Marcia Wiss's practice, Hogan and Hartson, concentrates on international project finance and business transactions, with a particular focus on the financial structuring of international projects in emerging markets. Wiss has been in the private practice of law for the past 25 years and prior to that was the deputy to the assistant general counsel for finance at the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC). She has been the lead counsel on numerous projects financed by the US Export Import Bank, OPIC, and the International Finance Corporation, as well as commercial banks and the capital markets. She has represented clients in international business transactions on the Indian Subcontinent, Latin America, the Far East, the Caribbean, Africa, Eastern and Central Europe, and the Middle East. Wiss also has taught a course on international project finance and investment at Georgetown University Law Center for the past 20 years, and is currently teaching a class on international investment law at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
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