Jean Heilman Grier is the Trade Principal with Djaghe, LLC., a consulting firm. She is the author of The International Procurement System: Liberalization & Protectionism (Washington: Dalston Press, 2022) and has maintained a blog, Perspectives on Trade at http://trade.djaghe.com, since 2013. Ms. Grier has extensive experience in international trade as a trade negotiator, lawyer, adviser, and consultant. She served as the Senior Procurement Negotiator at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, where she was the U.S. negotiator for the WTO Government Procurement Agreement and numerous free trade agreements, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Prior to joining USTR, Ms. Grier served as Senior Counsel for Trade Agreements at the US Department of Commerce. She received law degrees from the University of Minnesota (J.D.) and the University of Washington (LL.M) and was a Fulbright Scholar at Tohoku University in Japan. She is a member of the District of Columbia bar.