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Joelle Anne Schmitz
is Senior Fellow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University. She serves as a subject-area expert committed to the interdependence of business and government with a specific focus on the interrelation of regulation and industry. She has published and lectured on these topics in Asia, Europe, and across North America. Schmitz offers extensive leadership experience and has served within the transportation industry and as an industry consultant, working closely with a broad spectrum of policy stakeholders. Schmitz was born in Hartford, Connecticut and currently resides in Washington, DC and Cambridge, MA. She received an MPP from Harvard Kennedy School in 1995 and was educated, on fellowship, at Johns Hopkins University SAIS, the Harvard Business and Law Schools, L'Ecole Nationale d'Administration, and McGill University. Schmitz served as a Fulbright Scholar and policy advisor to the Canadian Prime Minister’s office on issues of regulatory and transport policy in 2003-2008, a consultant to the lead American negotiator of international regulatory agreement in the mid-1990s, and a board member of nonprofit organizations. She is a co-sponsor of the Harvard Kennedy School Transportation Study Group which hosts academic, industry, and legislative leaders in public policy community dialogues. A member of TRB, AEA, APSA, IPSA, Schmitz resides in Washington, DC and Cambridge, MA