Emily is a lead associate with SECURUS Strategic Trade Solutions, LLC. She specializes in export control, chemical security, and biosecurity. Her regions of focus are Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa. She currently serves as an assistant manager on SECURUS projects in Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Republic of Georgia, and Southeast Asia.

Emily has six years’ experience providing international trade and security consulting services to government and industry. She has trained government officials and businesses in Eastern Europe and the Middle East on export controls, sanctions, chemical security, and biosecurity. She also has consulted with Japanese industry and a major multinational pharmaceuticals company on export control regulations and compliance. In addition, Emily’s work has included performing extensive reviews of foreign trade, chemical security, and biosecurity regulations in countries around the world, including Egypt, Singapore, and South Korea.

Emily has published analyses of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), updates to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal, the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), and Japan-South Korea trade disputes.

Emily has master’s and bachelor’s degrees in political science from Midwestern State University in Texas.