Thea Kendler

Clients turn to Thea D. Rozman Kendler for all aspects of export controls- and sanctions-related counseling, including compliance, internal investigations, foreign regulatory development, and policy guidance. Multinational companies focused on AI and advanced technologies rely on Thea’s extensive experience in international trade, national security, and white collar defense to comply with the law and understand the risks inherent to their industries. Thea also provides guidance to sovereign governments seeking to adopt laws and regulations that protect their own technology innovation.

Thea has spent her career cultivating relationships with both industry and foreign government counterparts to lead the development of novel controls and global technology partnerships to protect critical technologies.

As the former Assistant Secretary for Export Administration at the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), Thea was the senior BIS official leading policy-making and implementation of dual-use export controls, with a particular focus on advanced computing, artificial intelligence, and other emerging technologies. In addition, Thea developed innovative applications of dual-use export controls in response to Russia’s 2022 further invasion of Ukraine, in collaboration with foreign counterparts. Working closely with the Defense, Energy, State, and Treasury Departments, Thea led BIS’s continuing efforts to modernize dual-use export controls.

• University of Pennsylvania, JD
• Princeton University, AB, School of Public and International Affairs

• District of Columbia
• New York