Author: Marianne Rowden

Marianne Rowden is the CEO and a Director of the E-Merchants Trade Council, Inc. (EMTC), a global trade association for e-commerce entrepreneurs to support simplification of trade, tax and transportation policies. EMTC is the accrediting body for the ISO/IEC 17024 Certification of Global Trade Professionals and a Partner Accreditor for CBP’s LCB Continuing Education program. As CEO, she leverages her broad network of policymakers in the United States and at international institutions such as the World Trade Organization, World Customs Organization, the World Bank and UNCTAD to present positions that support the growth of e-commerce across all participants in the supply chain. Ms. Rowden has also collaborated with the World Customs Organization including taking on leadership roles within the Private Sector Consultative Group, serving three terms as Co-Chair of the WCO’s Work Group on E-commerce which has produced a Framework of Standards. Rowden served as President & CEO of the American Association of Exporters and Importers (AAEI) for 12 years and practiced law over 20 years concentrating in international trade and transportation regulatory compliance. She also serves as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Illinois Chicago (formerly The John Marshall School of Law) teaching Homeland Security, U.S. import and export law, and speaks widely to U.S. and international audiences on trade issues.