INTERNATIONAL AND U.S. MACROGLOBAL BUSINESS & NGO ADVISORY

Ms. Weinstein engages in a government affairs, U.S. and international business, and non-governmental organization practice. She advises global corporations, high tech, small business, non-profits, renowned universities, and governments. With deep research, analytical skills, and reach to ranking officials, executives, recognized experts, and some of the most brilliant thought leadership of the day, she counsels and structures on behalf of chief executives, public and private entities. Topics include foreign, U.S. and government affairs, projects and accessing government and related funding in diverse sectors, policy and NGO advisory, and business expansion into established and emerging markets.

Ms. Weinstein works on projects, issues, procurement, exports and export financing in a range of sectors, including for national security, technology and equipment, aircraft, IT, digital, projects for renewable energy, natural resources, mining, environmental, climate change, rare minerals, projects involving smart cities and transformative rural communities, a range of emergency situation access for programs in the U.S. and abroad, health and hospital centers, agribusiness programs, infrastructure, industrials, public policy, and futuristic agendas. Ms. Weinstein, advises non-profits on their activities and to secure government and philanthropic funding for which she has been very successful receiving large amounts from donor sources. There are also civil society projects, involving water, sanitation, transportation, education, micro-finance, security, trade, textiles, and related, including in Central, Eastern and South Europe, India, Afghanistan, Africa, and elsewhere. A main client for many years has been an aircraft manufacturer, serving as one of its lead government affairs representatives, selling aircraft to the U.S. government and foreign governments, including through the multilateral institutions, for forestry, emergency situations and other needs. Great success has been achieved advising clients on international contract and issue resolution for construction, oil and gas projects, with and vis-à-vis some of the name-recognizable multinational corporations, including those active in Europe, the Middle East, Iraq, Asia, and Central Asia; projects involved in international arbitration advisory, diplomatic, state, embassy, and policy agendas, including with leading jurisprudence and sovereignty law experts. First level entities have hired her to work on their embassy matters.

Ms. Weinstein has advised and advises certain Asian, Central and Eastern European, Russian and Central Asian Republics, Latin American and African governments in a variety of contexts. She has organized working groups, programs, and platforms with world experts on global security, macroglobal, corporate and financial topics, such as at the White House, embassies, world preeminent universities, such as Cambridge University, a major recognized university homeland security center, and other high level education programs tech transfer, in the U.S., and on behalf of prominent multinational corporations and NGOs. She has structured working groups for prominent U.S., UK and other entities on geopolitical, transatlantic, Asian, and transpacific affairs, and structured for a major center on East-West relations. For over a decade, Ms. Weinstein served on the board of the MIT Enterprise Forum, with emergent, cutting-edge technologies, business leaders, technologists, venture and angle investors, and as an adviser to investment and financial concerns. Ms. Weinstein has been active with the Harvard, University of Chicago, and Wharton business organizations, and with outstanding distinguished alums and others in Washington, New York, London, and worldwide.

Shortly upon coming to Washington, Ms. Weinstein worked at the White House on policy issues and other endeavors to the highest levels, including participation in a sub-cabinet working group on public and private partnerships. She has served on advisory and working groups at the U.S. Departments of State, and Treasury. In the immediate post-Soviet period, Ms. Weinstein was engaged in the Russian Federation and other Russian and Central Asian Republics, working closely with these governments transitioning into market-based economies. She was highly active with Western corporations and global consulting companies opening flagship enterprises in these countries, energy, privatization, ports, and other endeavors. During this period, Ms. Weinstein organized and served as general counsel to the chamber of commerce of one of the major newly formed Russian Republics, with prominent multinational chief executives as board members, and Baker, Brzezinski, and Kissinger on its advisory council, and remains active. She served as a key advisor and board member to a number of recognized non-governmental organizations, including for one of the few NGO'S invited to the Bonn Peace Process. She has been highly participatory with organizations regularly testifying before Congress, the White House, foreign equivalents, the UN, active with dignitaries such as Kofi Annan, and others. She was a lead in the creation and structuring of foreign ministries and undertakings in certain post-conflict environments, achieving paradigm-shifting Congressional multi-millions of dollars of funding for capacity building, post-war initiatives. Ms. Weinstein has served and continues to serve on boards for civil society, humanitarian concerns, and the arts.

Ms. Weinstein has authored book chapters and articles on numerous topics, as set forth in the succeeding Executive Profiles section. Articles have been informed, and interviews for clients arranged with major media outlets, viz. CNN, The Financial Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal Asia, Energy Daily, and other technology and sector publications, major news and political commentary programs, and documentaries.