James Kolbe is a senior transatlantic fellow at the German Marshall Fund (GMF) of the United States in Washington, DC, and a consultant at Kissinger McLarty Associates. He is an expert in US and European trade and development policies, transatlantic relations, aid delivery, and migration policies. Prior to this, Mr. Kolbe served as one of Arizona’s representatives to United States House of Representatives. During his tenure in Congress, Mr. Kolbe served on the House Appropriations committee. He crafted legislation calling for the modernization of US currency. He was also co-chair for a transatlantic and multilateral frameworks task force for the Transatlantic Policy Network. Mr. Kolbe received his B.A. from Northwestern University and his M.B.A. from Stanford University. He was a participant at the Salzburg Global Seminar’s special session in 2007, Realizing the Doha Development Agenda as if the Future Mattered.