ALICE SLAYTON CLARK is a Government Relations Adviser with the International Trade and Dispute Resolution Group at Sidley. She has extensive experience in legislative affairs, working nearly two decades in both the House and Senate for lawmakers and in the private sector as a political analyst/advocate. She has successfully represented clients before the U.S. government by developing and implementing advocacy strategies for international trade interests, including writing speeches, testimony, talking points and editorials. She also has taken leadership roles in the international trade community, recently serving on the Board and as President of Women in International Trade, an association of over 400 trade professionals in the Washington, D.C. area. Ms. Slayton Clark has a masters degree in international relations from Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and a bachelors degree in government from Oberlin College and speaks Spanish and basic German.