Consultant

 

Mr. Anderson founded Global USA in 1983, in order to fill a need he perceived to provide a bipartisan approach to helping clients solve problems with the federal government.  Mr. Anderson also serves as Senior Counsel to the President of the United States Chamber of Commerce where he chairs a Chamber effort focusing on the need for greater international regulatory cooperation as well as on creating over 20 million new jobs through private sector efforts.

 

Mr. Anderson has practiced law in Washington, D.C. since 1969, interrupted in the early '70's by his service in the Government - first at the White House and then at the Department of State.  In 1981, Mr. Anderson founded his own law firm, Anderson, Hibey, Nauheim and Blair, and in 1995, he joined the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery.  While he was a partner at MWE, he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, where he set the Chamber's legal reform strategy.  He also chaired the successful effort to pass class-action reform legislation.  Mr. Anderson oversaw the National Chamber Litigation Center, the public policy legal arm of the Chamber; the Institute for Legal Reform, a Chamber affiliate dedicated to restoring fairness, efficiency, and consistency to the U.S. civil justice system; and the Chamber's Office of General Counsel.

 

Mr. Anderson served in the White House during the Nixon Administration and as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations under Henry Kissinger.  He has been involved in managing a number of Republican conventions and served as Counsel to the Reagan-Bush Campaign in 1980.  He also held a senior position in the in the Presidential Transition of that year.  Mr. Anderson has received a number of Presidential appointments, including membership on the President's Advisory Committee on Trade Negotiations and the Presidential Commission on Personnel Interchange.  He chaired the U.S. delegation to the United Nations conference on New and Renewable Energy Resources in 1981.

 

Mr. Anderson currently serves as a Director of the National Chamber Litigation Center; the Institute for Legal Reform; the Center for International Private Enterprise, an organization that fosters democracy around the world; and the Board of Advisors of Westmont College.  Mr. Anderson previously served on the Board of Directors of two public companies, CB Richard Ellis and Aegis Communications Group.

 

Mr. Anderson graduated from Westmont College where he was a Small College All-American basketball player, and he received his law degree from Williamette University where he was a member of the Law Review.