Carla Hills is chairman and chief executive officer of Hills & Company, an international consulting firm providing advice to U.S. businesses on investment, trade, and risk assessment issues abroad, particularly in emerging market economies. As a U.S. trade representative from 1989 to 1993, she was the president's principal adviser on international trade policy as well as the nation's chief trade negotiator, representing American interests in multilateral and bilateral trade negotiations throughout the world. Ms. Hills is actively involved with a number of organizations, serving as chair of the Inter-American Dialogue and of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. She also co-chairs the international advisory board of the Center for Strategic and International Studies while serving as a member of the executive committee of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, the Trilateral Commission, and the board of the International Crisis Group. Ms. Hills earned her LL.B. degree from Yale University and her undergraduate degree from Stanford University. She was a faculty member at Salzburg Global Seminar Session 480, The Rule of Law in a Globalized World: Why it Matters, in 2011.