Neena Shenai

Neena Shenai is a nonresident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where her research focuses on global trade, international economics, and globalization. She is also a global trade attorney in Washington, DC.

Ms. Shenai has served as a trade counsel for the House Committee on Ways and Means, where she advised Rep. Dave Camp (R-MI) and later Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), who served as the successive chairmen of the committee. She has also worked as a trade policy counsel for the Senate Republican Policy Committee and as the senior advisor to the assistant secretary for export administration in the Bureau of Industry and Security at the US Department of Commerce.

Previously, Ms. Shenai was an associate in the international trade group of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP, a professional trainee in the Rules Division of the World Trade Organization, and a law clerk to the Hon. Evan J. Wallach at the US Court of International Trade.

The author of several papers and articles on international economic issues, Ms. Shenai has served on task forces and projects at both the Council on Foreign Relations and AEI, including as co-chair of the Prosperity Working Group of AEI’s American Internationalism Project.

Ms. Shenai has a JD from Vanderbilt University Law School and attended Georgetown University Law Center as a visiting student. She received an MPhil in international relations from St. Antony’s College at Oxford University and a BA in Latin and political science from Swarthmore College.

Experience

• Principal trade counsel for a global medical technology and services company, 2015–present
• House Committee on Ways and Means: Trade Counsel, 2011–15
• Senate Republican Policy Committee: Banking, Commerce, Transportation, and Trade Policy Counsel, 2010–11
• American Enterprise Institute: Research Fellow, 2009–10
• US Department of Commerce: Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Export Administration, Bureau of Industry and Security, 2007–09
• Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP: Associate, International Trade Group, 2006–07
• World Trade Organization: Professional Trainee, Rules Division, 2005
• US Court of International Trade: Judicial Law Clerk, Hon. Evan J. Wallach, 2003–05

Education

JD, Vanderbilt University Law School
(Visiting student, Georgetown University Law Center)
MPhil, international relations, St. Anthony’s College, University of Oxford
BA, Latin, political science, Swarthmore College