Sally A. Painter, Principal and Managing Director, Dutko Global Advisors, has over 25 years’ experience providing corporate, institutional and public sector clients with results-oriented external affairs, foreign policy and business development strategies within the international marketplace.
Under Ms. Painter’s leadership, Dutko Global Advisor’s recently won a major contract representing seven Central European countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia) in a Visa Equity Coalition on their most important foreign policy issue with the United States – Visa Waiver legislation.
Ms. Painter has a successful track record of leading large-scale public-private projects, including as a lead advisor on the most recent NATO Summits including: Washington, DC – 1999, Prague - 2002, Istanbul – 2004 and Riga – 2006. In this capacity, she worked directly with the leadership of the host and US governments, CEOs of global corporations, the U.S. Congress, NATO Headquarters and the Bush and Clinton White Houses to promote and educate transatlantic leaders on the importance of NATO and the Alliance.
Ms. Painter has been a member of the Board of the most influential NGO within the NATO space – the US Committee on NATO since 1995 and as such played a major role in supporting NATO expansion. She has also represented a number of these countries on their NATO and EU bids, including: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia and Latvia, among others. Instrumental in this successful process was a thorough understanding and ability to educate the foreign policy decision-makers within the transatlantic community. Over the last few years, Ms. Painter has also worked with opposition leaders in countries in transition, including Ukraine, Azerbaijan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
Throughout 2000, she served as Executive Director of the Business Coalition for US-China Trade, a business group of 100 major corporate leaders that successfully secured passage of Permanent Normal Trade Relations with China.
For three and a half years, Ms. Painter served as the Director of International at Tenneco Inc, a Fortune 500 company with manufacturing facilities throughout the world. In this capacity, she was in charge of advancing the corporation’s business interests and negotiating new ventures with the host governments in over 20 countries. While at Tenneco, she was also instrumental in the creation and early management of the Transatlantic Business Dialogue and the French American Business Council, two public/private ventures designed to engage business leaders and government officials to resolve trade disputes.
Prior to joining Tenneco, Ms. Painter was a senior advisor in the Clinton Administration. As such, she helped to manage the outreach and advocacy program for the late Secretary of Commerce, Ronald H. Brown, by providing strategic advice and assistance to U.S companies bidding and winning overseas contracts.
Ms. Painter is on the Board of Directors for the U.S. Committee on NATO, the Global Fairness Initiative, a founding member of the Transatlantic Business Dialogue (TABD), a founding member of the Advisory Council for the Center on the United States and France at the Brookings Institution, and a founding member of the Transatlantic Partnership Working Group. She is also a Fellow on the Truman National Security Project and on the Executive Committee of The Washington Center's Institute for Global Civic Leadership.
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