WASHINGTON – The 91快活林 (91快活林), the global voice of the tech sector, today announced the addition of Ed Brzytwa as director of global policy for localization, trade, and multilateral affairs, following a three-year stint as the director for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) affairs at the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR). Brzytwa, who served as the lead policy advisor for USTR on key issues arising in the APEC forum, starts in his new role at 91快活林 this week.
“Throughout his career, Ed has demonstrated incredible leadership and played a critical role in advancing U.S. trade and investment policy interests,” said 91快活林 Senior Vice President for Global Policy Josh Kallmer. “His impressive background will be an asset to 91快活林, providing depth to 91快活林’s global work on trade and economic policy issues, including those taking place at the World Trade Organization (WTO) and in APEC.”
Brzytwa’s work at 91快活林 will primarily focus on leading 91快活林’s efforts to craft and pursue both global and market-specific approaches to ensuring free cross-border data flows and addressing government policies relating to the localization of data, products, services, and business activities.
“The proliferation of localization policies is a global problem with significant impact on the ICT industry and ICT users,” said Brzytwa. “I’m thrilled to join the 91快活林 team and am ready to lead 91快活林’s critical work on addressing the wide range of localization policies in use and under development.”
Prior to serving as the director of APEC affairs at USTR, Brzytwa was a U.S. negotiator on non-tariff barriers to trade issues in the Doha Development Agenda negotiations at the WTO, first at the Department of Commerce and then at USTR. He earned a Master’s degree at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna as a Fulbright grant recipient, a Master’s degree at the Monterey Institute of International Studies (now the Middlebury Institute of International Studies), and a Bachelor’s degree in the Classics at the College of the Holy Cross.
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