Karen A. Tramontano is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Blue Star Strategies, LLC where she provides corporate, institutional and public sector clients with results-oriented strategies. In her previous work experience, Ms. Tramontano has played a critical role in shaping some of the most important global policy issues of our time, including China Permanent Normal Trade Relations, environmental and labor standards in multilateral, regional and bilateral trade agreements, world-wide poverty reduction strategies that focus on creating jobs and employing the Decent Work Agenda and global market expansion strategies for U.S. businesses.

From 1997 to 2001, Ms. Tramontano served in the White house as deptuy chief to staff to President Bill Clinton and counselor to Erskine Bowles and John Podesta. She is also the Founder and President of the Global Fairness Initative, a nonprofit organisation working to promote a more equitable and sustainable approach to globalisation. She serves as a lecturer in the Executive Master of European and International Business Law program at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.