Isabel H Jasinowski

Isabel H. Jasinowski was elected vice president, government relations and a corporate officer in April 2001. She had been vice president, government relations and head of Goodyear's Washington, D.C., office since 1995. Jasinowski serves as the company's senior registered lobbyist. Having started her career as director of local issues for Gov. Jimmy Carter's 1976 presidential campaign, she has more than 25 years of government relations and Capitol Hill experience. Prior to her 1995 promotion, Jasinowski had been director of federal legislative affairs for Goodyear and previously served the company as Washington representative focusing her attention on international trade and federal tax matters before the U.S. Congress. Since joining Goodyear in 1981, she has represented the company's public policy positions on a host of global issues with direct strategic business implications. Gaining most of her international trade and business experience at the U.S. Department of Commerce, Jasinowski set up and ran the Office of Business Liaison, reporting to the Secretary of Commerce. Her duties included serving as ombudsman for companies and trade associations seeking assistance from the agency and fostering business' significant issues for deliberation at the highest levels of government. Jasinowski was born on February 11, 1949, in New York City to a family with a long tradition of transatlantic business and government involvement. Her maternal grandfather was a Senator in France and Jasinowski spent much of her formative years traveling between France and the United States. She speaks French fluently. She was graduated cum laude with honors from Barnard College in 1972, holding a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science. She completed her master's degree at Columbia University in 1975.