Prior to joining TWG as a Senior Associate in October 2005, Aubrey Hruby was formally an international trade specialist at The Barnett Group LLC. There, she worked with corporate clients to design successful public affairs strategies that marshaled U.S. government/foreign government resources and partnerships with media and non-governmental organizations to resolve trade problems in the Middle East and Africa. In this capacity, she completed extensive customs analysis and tracked regional trade agreements for a large multinational food company, hosted foreign delegations, and co-authored an emerging-market analysis of Iraq for the pharmaceutical industry. She holds a Master of Arts degree in international security from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.