Ed Brzytwa is the Consumer Technology Association’s Vice President of International Trade. He leads CTA’s trade and supply chain policy and advocacy work, with a strong focus on improving the international trade environment and global supply chains to strengthen the competitiveness of the U.S. consumer technology industry. In July 2024, Ed received an appointment to the Export-Import Bank of the United States’ 2024-25 Council on China Competition. The Washingtonian Magazine has included Ed on the 500 Most Influential People of 2023 and 2024. Ed previously served as an international trade advocate for the American Chemistry Council and Information Technology Industry Council and a trade negotiator in Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and U.S. Department of Commerce. Ed obtained two Master’s degrees from the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna in Austria, where he was a Fulbright fellow, and from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey and has a Bachelor of the Arts degree from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, as The Henry Bean S.J. Scholar of The Classics.