D. Holly Hammonds

Senior Advisor

D. Holly Hammonds is a Senior Advisor to Fontheim International, LLC, a Co-founder and Board member of GlobalWorks Foundation.

Ms. Hammonds has extensive experience, as a government official and as an advisor to businesses and nonprofit organizations, in the areas of global trade, labor and human rights, gender equity and inclusive development. She has worked in many capacities on opportunities and challenges at the intersection of these issues, across a range of sectors worldwide, including textiles and apparel, communications and technology, financial services, and food and agriculture.

Ms. Hammonds has served on the senior staff of the White House National Security and National Economic Councils, as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for International Economic Affairs, as a presidential appointee to the Board of Conciliators of the World Bank International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, as a trade negotiator in the Office of the United States Trade Representative, as a partner and managing director of Fontheim International LLC, and as an attorney in private practice.

Ms. Hammonds has degrees from Yale Law School (JD) and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (MPA). She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, has been an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, and has held fellowships with the Council on Foreign Relations, World Resources Institute, and Progressive Policy Institute.