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Speaker Biographies Speaker Biographies Mavara Agha ’16 Mavara Agha is a 3L at Harvard Law School. She received her BA in Economics and International Studies, and minored in Political Science from Northwestern University. She then worked on former Governor of Illinois Pat Quinn’s Policy Team focusing on issues related to workforce development, sustainability, and social innovation. At HLS, Mavara served as captain of the Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Court team and traveled to Vienna and Hong Kong for competitions where she received Honorable Mentions for her written and oral advocacy skills. She has also been involved in the Harvard Human Rights Law Journal, as Managing Editor and in her last year at HLS, Mavara also served as Student Body Vice President. She spent her summers at the King and Spalding in Atlanta and at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York City. Following graduation, Mavara plans to return to Sullivan & Cromwell and hopes to participate in internationally focused work. Barbara M. Angus ’86 Barbara M. Angus ’86 serves as the Chief Tax Counsel for the Committee on Ways and Means of the United States House of Representatives. Before being appointed to that role by Chairman Kevin Brady in February 2016, she was a principal with Ernst & Young, where she was leader of strategic international tax policy services. Earlier, Ms. Angus served as International Tax Counsel for the US Department of the Treasury from 2001 – 2005 and as Business Tax Counsel for the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation from 1995 – 1998. Her private sector experience includes having founded and operated a consulting firm that represented multinational clients on tax legislative and regulatory matters. She also was a principal in the Federal Tax Policy practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers. She began her career with Kirkland & Ellis where she became a partner. In addition to her Harvard Law School education, Barbara received her undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College and has an MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Heather Artinian ’18 Heather Artinian is a 1L who graduated from Georgetown University last year with a BA in Government and a minor in Justice and Peace Studies. At HLS, Heather is a student attorney at Harvard Defenders, a member of the Women’s Law Association, and plays intramural sports. She also works on the Intimate Partner Violence Triage Study led by Professor Greiner, a project seeking to answer the question: how legal service providers should triage clients to different levels of service when resources are constrained? Additionally, Heather helps organize events for section 2.This summer, she will be interning in the criminal division at the Eastern District of Virginia, US Attorney’s Office. Sareta Ashraph LL.M. ’01 Since May 2012, Sareta Ashraph has been the Chief Analyst on the UN Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic, investigating and reporting on violations of international law in the context of ongoing events in Syria. Immediately prior to this, she occupied the same position on the United Nations’ International Commission of Inquiry on Libya, examining violations of international law by the pro-Qadhafi forces, the anti-Qadhafi armed groups and NATO. In 2010 and 2011, she was based in the Hague as the Legal Adviser to the Office of the Public Counsel for the Defense (OPCD) in the International Criminal Court, working on the Kenya and Central African Republic cases. In 2009, she worked as a Legal Consultant to the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, also known as the Goldstone Inquiry, and was part of the team that conducted investigations and drafted the final Report. From 2004 – 2009, Ms. Ashraph was based in Freetown, Sierra Leone where she was Co-Counsel on the Defense team representing Issa Sesay (the former interim Leader of the Revolutionary United Front) before the Special Court for Sierra Leone. Since 2013, Ms. Ashraph has been ranked by Chambers and Partners (UK edition) as a Notable Practitioner in the field of international criminal law. She is a member of Garden Court Chambers in London, one of the UK’s leading human rights chambers. She completed her LLM at Harvard Law School in 2001, where she was also a Wasserstein Fellow in the fall of 2015. Bradford A. Berenson ’91 Brad Berenson is Vice President and Senior Counsel for Litigation and Legal Policy at the General Electric Company. In this role, he has responsibility at the corporate level for litigation, government and internal investigations, compliance, and legal policy worldwide. Prior to joining GE, Mr. Berenson was a partner at Sidley Austin LLP in Washington, D.C. Mr. Berenson’s practice at Sidley focused on criminal and civil litigation, investigations and regulatory matters in a broad variety of subject areas, including healthcare, insider trading, the environment, international commercial disputes, fraud, False Claims Act investigations, constitutional law, public corruption, tax, insurance, and FCPA. Mr. Berenson served as Associate Counsel to the President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2003. In that role, he worked on judicial selection, congressional oversight and investigations, and policy initiatives and litigation arising from the attacks of September 11, including the USA Patriot Act, military commissions, detainee and anti-terrorism litigation, presidential action against terrorism financing, and the creation of the Department of Homeland Security. Mr. Berenson graduated summa cum laude with a degree in History from Yale and magna cum laude from Harvard Law School where he was Supreme Court editor of the Harvard Law Review. After graduating from Law School, he clerked for Judge Laurence H. Silberman of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and for Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the United States Supreme Court. F. Paul Bland, Jr. ’86 F. Paul Bland is Executive Director of Public Justice, a national public interest law firm with 15 attorneys and a staff of nearly 30. He oversees its docket of consumer, environmental and civil rights cases, as well as its communications work and its development and administration departments. As a litigator, he has argued and won more than 30 reported cases, including victories in six of the US Courts of Appeal and at least one decision in the high courts of nine different states. He has been counsel for consumers in cases that have collectively won injunctive and monetary relief exceeding $1 billion. He was the 2006 Recipient of the National Consumer Law Center’s Vern Countryman Award, which “honors the accomplishments of an exceptional consumer attorney who, through the practice of consumer law, has contributed significantly to the well-being of vulnerable consumers.” He was also the recipient of the Maryland Consumer Rights Coalition’s 2013 “Legal Champion” Award, and the 2010 Maryland Legal Aid Bureau’s “Champion of Justice” Award. He has presented at more than 100 continuing legal education or professional conferences in more than 25 states; has testified in both houses of Congress, several state legislatures and administrative agencies; has been quoted in more than 100 periodicals throughout the country and has appeared in several radio and TV stories. Mr. Bland has argued and won appeals where courts rejected claims that various federal laws preempted pro-consumer state laws as well as appeals where courts limited abuses of forced arbitration clauses. From 1989–1990, he served as the Chief Nominations Counsel, for the US Senate Judiciary Committee. Michelle H. Blauner ’86 Michelle H. Blauner ’86 is a Partner in Shapiro Haber & Urmy LLP, a litigation boutique in Boston, Massachusetts that concentrates in complex civil actions, particularly class actions and derivative actions. With decades of experience litigating, trying, and winning multi-million dollar cases across the country, Ms. Blauner has been a leader in the field of plaintiff-side class action litigation. She specializes in representing individuals and businesses in class actions focusing on consumer fraud, business fraud, securities fraud and ERISA violations. Ms. Blauner also received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Cornell University in 1983. Jacquelynne Bowman Jacquelynne J. Bowman became Greater Boston Legal Services (GBLS) Executive Director in August, 2011 and is responsible for the overall management and operations of GBLS. She initially started work at GBLS as a senior attorney and then Managing Attorney of the Family Law Unit. She left GBLS in 1991, to work at the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute as the state support attorney for family and juvenile law matters. Ms. Bowman returned to GBLS in 1998, first as an Associate Director and then later became the Deputy Director. She is a nationally recognized expert in family and juvenile law as well as in law practice management. She serves on the Access to Justice Commission of the SJC as well as several boards of nonprofit organizations. Douglas L. Braunstein ’86 Doug Braunstein is Founder and Managing Partner of Hudson Executive Capital. Mr. Braunstein has 29 years of industry experience, most recently serving as JPMorgan Chase & Company’s Chief Financial Officer until December 2012, as a member of the Company’s Operating Committee, and as Vice Chairman from 2013 – 2015. Prior to that, Mr. Braunstein was Head of JPMorgan’s Americas Investment Banking and Global M&A departments from 2008 – 2010, Global Head of Industry Coverage and M&A from 2002 – 2007, and Global Head of M&A from 1997 – 2002. He also served as a member of JPMorgan’s Executive Committee and the Investment Bank Management Committee. Mr. Braunstein has been an advisor to numerous boards and management teams in the planning, structuring and implementation of the full range of corporate finance solutions. He has worked on over $1 trillion in transactions. He is a trustee of Cornell University, and serves as co-chair of the Finance Committee and is a member of the Investment Committee.
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