Natalia is a lead associate with SECURUS Strategic Trade Solutions, LLC. She specializes in biosecurity, chemical security, and export control. Her regions of focus are Latin America and Eastern Europe. She currently serves as an assistant project manager on SECURUS projects in Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania.

Natalia 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 North Africa on biosecurity and chemical security. She also has consulted with Japanese industry and a major multinational pharmaceuticals company on export control regulations and compliance. In addition, Natalia’s work has included performing extensive reviews of foreign trade, biosecurity, and chemical security regulations in countries around the world, including Egypt, Mexico, and Serbia.

Natalia has written on international trade developments in Latin America with a focus on Pacific Alliance countries (Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru), foreign trade regulations in Mexico, and the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Free Trade Agreement.

Natalia holds a master’s degree in global policy studies with a specialization in security, law, and diplomacy from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. She also holds a bachelor’s degree in global studies and political science from Midwestern State University in Texas.