Anne Pence

AdvisOr

                                                                                                Anne Pence is a Senior International Advisor at Covington & Burling.  She provides guidance and solutions to international energy and extractives companies in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. For instance, she’s advised and represented coalitions of major global consumer product companies on global standards and policies with UN agencies and the OECD, assisted hedge funds and financial entities in assessing and managing market risk, advised on business opportunities and conditions in the Middle East, and supported efforts by major pharmaceutical companies to operate in and serve lower-income markets and populations.

Ms. Pence previously served as a senior policy advisor to two Under Secretaries and a Deputy Secretary of State on G8 (including on Africa, the Middle East, counter-terrorism, and climate change), the G20, and international economic and development policies and strategies. She also helped launch the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) and was posted in Africa as a USAID Mission economist. Ms. Pence has extensive experience with complex negotiations and position development, and experience and relationships with major international organizations, including the World Bank, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), UN agencies and the OECD, and knows the civil society, think-tank and philanthropic stakeholders involved on international issues.