Nancy LeaMond, Executive Vice President and Chief Advocacy & Engagement Officer, AARP, checks in from Washington, DC.. Bringing the business community up to speed on what AARP does and what it represents now in 2018. She then picks up on conversations she and Chris Holman had when they recently met in Detroit, MI.
LeaMond had been into Michigan to speak at NAIAS (Detroit auto show). Her focus in this discussion is on the future of autonomous vehicles and the impact on older adults. They wrap up the coversation briefly reviewing some of her career leading up to her time with AARP. To hear this conversation click on the SoundCloud PodCast embedded below.
LeaMond was formerly CEO/President for five years of the Congressional Economic Leadership Institute, a public policy group founded in 1987 to identify and research emerging international economic, trade, technology, tax and workforce issues.
She began her career as the Chief of Staff to U.S. Congresswoman Mary Rose Oakar. On March 18, 1993 she was nominated by President Clinton to serve as Assistant U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) for Congressional Affairs. She served as Chief of Staff to U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky. As USTR, she helped to accomplish the following:
1) Co-ordinated public affairs activities around the enactment of major trade agreements with Jordan and China
2) 1999 negotiations of the World Trade Organization
3) Successful management of the passage of major Presidential legislative initiatives including North America Free Trade Agreement, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Uruguay Round) and China MFN.
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