Kate Clemans

Ms. Clemans has particular experience in multilateral trade negotiations, bilateral market access issues, regulatory affairs, trade remedies, and safeguards issues. As a New Zealand official, she played a key role in representing the government before the U.S. Administration and in the Uruguay Round negotiations.

Ms. Clemans has an extensive range of high-level contacts throughout the Asia-Pacific region. She is recognized as the leading private sector advisor in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum, where she launched multiple industry initiatives.

Ms. Clemans serves as advisor to the co-chairs of the APEC Life Sciences Innovation Forum, on the Advisory Board of the Victoria University of Melbourne’s Institute for Strategic Economic Studies, as Honorary Co-Chair of the APEC Health Sciences Academy, and on the Advisory Board for the Economist Intelligence Unit Healthcare in Asia series. She also is on the advisory board of the Mansion on O Street Museum – honoring music, the arts, and the special contributions of veterans. In 2002, she was appointed as a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit by Queen Elizabeth the Second for her services to international trade.

Ms. Clemans obtained a bachelor of science degree with First Class Honors from Victoria University of Wellington, where she taught for five years. Research sabbaticals included studies at the Australian National University and the University of Western Australia.