Ana Hinojosa is a former Federal Senior Executive Leader with over 34 years of experience in law enforcement, international trade, international policy development and standard setting and with with the World Customs Organization (WCO) in Brussels, Belgium
Winner of the 2021 Service to America Award for Safety, Security and International Affairs and the People’s Choice Award. 2022 DHS Secretary -Exceptional Service Gold Medal Award recipient. Recently retired from DHS- Customs and Border Protection (CBP)(2021).
She is a seasoned Customs expert and Senior Executive, having served in many leadership positions in Customs for over 30 years. Most recently, she was responsible for directing CBP’s trade threat assessment units, special investigations, and enforcement programs focused on detecting, deterring and disrupting illicit trade, with a special emphasis on forced labor violations, evasion of special tariff cases and modernizing the use of civil penalties to ensure appropriate consequence delivery for non-compliance.
She has provided lectures in various academic institutions and for professional continuing education, including Georgetown Law , Universidad Catolica de Cordoba, and the Naval Postgraduate School. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice from Texas A&M International, completed an Executive Development Program through Columbia University Graduate School of Business, and a Master in Business Administration from Texas A&M - Commerce.
She is now the President and Principal Consultant at ABH Global Trade Consulting LLC. Ana was also selected to serve on the Trade Facilitation Commission in the United Kingdom.
Dean Pinkert
Dean Pinkert is a trade and human rights consultant. After a lengthy period of government service and private practice focusing on international trade law and policy—which included ten years as a Commissioner at the US International Trade Commission—he joined Corporate Accountability Lab in 2021 as Special Advisor. In that capacity, he has written and testified extensively on human rights abuses in U.S.-facing supply chains.
Chavi Keeney Nana
Chavi Keeney Nana is a Professor from Practice at the University of Michigan Law School. She teaches anticorruption law and business and human rights, and supervises students in the Human Trafficking Clinic + Lab. Ms. Nana also serves as the Director of the Equitable Global Supply Chain program at the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility and is a U.S. Policy Advisor at the Responsible Contracting Project.
As a practitioner, Ms. Nana was Counsel in the New York office of WilmerHale, where she represented major multinational corporations and financial institutions in civil and criminal investigations before the US Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission. She focused her practice on government and internal corporate investigations, including on Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA); money laundering; and forced labor in supply chains. Her pro bono practice focused on civil litigation on behalf of trafficking victims.
Before joining WilmerHale, Ms. Nana served as the legal and policy assistant to the special gender adviser to the Office of the Prosecutor for the International Criminal Court in The Hague, The Netherlands. She was also a senior policy officer at the Ministry of Justice, Kingdom of the Netherlands, and focused on issues of immigrant integration, women’s rights, and diversity. Ms. Nana was awarded a Marshall Scholarship, Class of 2000.
