Shenai, Neena

Neena Shenai is Trade Counsel at the U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means where she advises the Committee Chairman, Trade Subcommittee Chairman, and other Members and Congressional staff on international trade issues. Her portfolio at the Committee includes work on budget and appropriations matters, ITC 337 cases, Buy America, sanctions, Miscellaneous Tariff Bill, international monetary policy, textile and footwear issues, and issues concerning India, Thailand, and other Asian countries. Ms. Shenai was also integrally involved in negotiating and drafting the recently enacted U.S.-Panama FTA implementing legislation and Statement of Administrative Action and bipartisan, bicameral 2011 legislation reforming Trade Adjustment Assistance.

Previously, Ms. Shenai served as Banking, Commerce, Transportation, and Trade Policy Counsel at the U.S. Senate Republican Policy Committee chaired by Senator John Thune. Formerly, Ms. Shenai was a Research Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research where she focused on the intersection of U.S. international trade and national security policy, export controls, U.S.-India relations, and Asian trade and security policy.

Ms. Shenai served as a Senior Advisor in the Bureau of Industry & Security at the U.S. Department of Commerce where she worked on formulating U.S. high-technology trade policy and managing bilateral dialogues with India, China, Israel, and Hong Kong SAR. She was an attorney in the international trade group of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP, and completed a professional traineeship in the Rules Division of the World Trade Organization and a judicial clerkship with the Hon. Evan J. Wallach at the U.S. Court of International Trade.

Ms. Shenai completed her legal studies at Vanderbilt University Law School and Georgetown University Law Center. Ms. Shenai also received an M.Phil. in International Relations from St. Antony’s College, Oxford University and a B.A. with High Honors in Latin and Political Science from Swarthmore College.