Clark Jennings

Clark Jennings is a Director at C&M International, the Washington-based global trade and regulatory policy consulting firm. There, he counsels multinationals and their trade associations in using international policy tools to support their corporate strategic priorities. He is a veteran of the National Economic Council in the Obama White House, where he managed the West Wing “war room” to coordinate the administration’s strategy, outreach, and communications efforts on behalf of the president’s trade agenda. Jennings was previously Chief of Staff at the U.S. Trade and Development Agency, and has represented the U.S. government in bilateral settings and international events on five continents. Prior to the Obama Administration, he worked as a commercial attorney, a federal law clerk, as Deputy Communications Director to Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe, and as part of the senior management team for the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina. He is a native of Little Rock, Arkansas.

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