Thea Kendler | Assistant Secretary for Export Administration during the Biden administration
Thea Kendler is co-head of Mayer Brown’s Export Controls & Sanctions practice. As Assistant Secretary for Export Administration during the Biden administration, Thea was the senior BIS official leading policy-making and implementation of all dual-use export controls, with a particular focus on advanced computing, artificial intelligence, and other emerging technologies. Prior to that role, she served for seven years as a prosecutor in the Justice Department’s National Security Division, Counterintelligence and Export Control Section, where she led investigations and prosecuted cases involving export controls, espionage, and counterintelligence, including the prosecution of Huawei. She also spent nearly 10 years in the BIS Chief Counsel's Office after beginning her career in private practice focused on the intersection of national security and international business.