Brian Pomper is a founding partner of Parven Pomper Strategies Inc. He has more than a decade of experience working in the government and representing businesses in the private sector. At Parven Pomper Strategies, Pomper has helped clients on political strategy and advocated for them before the U.S. Congress and administrative agencies on a wide array of issues, including international trade, customs, tax policy, health care, patent reform, intellectual property, and financial services issues.

Prior to founding the firm, Brian Pomper was the chief international trade counsel for Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) on the Democratic staff of the Senate Finance Committee. In that capacity, he was responsible for advising Chairman Baucus and the other members of the committee on all aspects of the committee's international trade and economic agenda, including oversight of ongoing trade negotiations, market access issues, international trade disputes, intellectual property, and international tax and customs issues.

Pomper was involved in virtually every major international economic issue that arose during his four years on the committee staff, including the ongoing Doha Round of World Trade Organization trade negotiations; bilateral issues with China, Japan, Europe, Mexico, Canada, India, Russia, and other important trading partners; economic sanctions against Cuba, Burma, and Syria; extension and changes to trade preference programs, including the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP), the Andean Trade Partnership Act (ATPA), the Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI), and the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA); and numerous investment issues, including those surrounding Dubai Ports World’s proposed investment in a U.S. port.

He has worked on passage and implementation of nearly every trade agreement to pass the Congress since the Trade Act of 2002, including agreements with Chile, Singapore, Australia, Morocco, Central America (CAFTA-DR), Oman, and Bahrain. He also oversaw negotiations with many other countries, including Thailand, Peru, Colombia, Panama, Korea, and the countries of the Southern African Customs Union (SACU). He played a key role in many other bills, including the SAFE Port Act, extension of permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) to Vietnam, miscellaneous tariff legislation, and the American Jobs Creation Act. Brian Pomper has also worked on a variety of proposals to enhance U.S. trade enforcement and on many international trade disputes, including those involving intellectual property protections in China, Russia, and elsewhere; the Boeing-Airbus dispute; the U.S.-Canada softwood lumber dispute; the U.S.-EU dispute concerning international taxation; and unscientific standards and regulations on agricultural and biotech products, among others.

Before joining the Finance Committee, Pomper worked at the Washington, DC office of the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, where he focused on international trade, litigation, and intellectual property matters.

Before entering private law practice, he served as a law clerk for the Hon. Sidney R. Thomas of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Billings, Montana. He earned a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering with honors from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a law degree magna cum laude from the Cornell University Law School, where he was managing editor of the Cornell International Law Journal.

Brian Pomper is a frequent speaker and frequently quoted authority on international trade issues, and he is a trusted advisor to Democrats on international trade policy. He is also a member of the patent bar and an expert on international protection of intellectual property rights. He has been invited by the governments of both France and Japan to visit with officials to discuss international economic policy and foreign policy as part of both countries’ “young leaders” programs. He is also joining the faculty of the George Washington University Graduate School of Political Management as an adjunct professor focusing on international trade and policy.

Pomper and his wife Anne Kim – Senior Policy Advisor and Director of the Middle Class Program for Third Way – live in Falls Church, Virginia with their young sons Alexander and Elliot.