D. Holly Hammonds

Holly Hammonds is a Co-founder and Board member of GlobalWorks Foundation, a Senior Advisor of Fontheim International, LLC, and an Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs.

Ms. Hammonds has extensive experience, as a government official and as an advisor to business and nonprofit organizations, in the areas of global trade, labor and human rights, gender equity, supply chain compliance, and sustainable development.  She has worked in many capacities on opportunities and challenges at the intersection of these issues, across a range of sectors globally, including textiles and apparel, communications and technology, financial services and food and agriculture.

Ms. Hammonds has served on the senior staff of the White House National Security and National Economic Councils, as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for International Economic Affairs, as a presidential appointee to the Board of Conciliators of the World Bank International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, as a negotiator in the Office of the United States Trade Representative, and as an attorney in private practice. 

Ms. Hammonds has degrees from Yale Law School (JD) and the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University (MPA). She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and has held fellowships with the Council on Foreign Relations, World Resources Institute, and Progressive Policy Institute.