Randi Levinas is Founder & CEO of Levinas Advisory.

Levinas was the first COO and the first female Executive VP of the U.S.-Russia Business Council (USRBC), a non-profit trade association of 200 corporate members, and oversaw its $2 million budget. She led the organization’s strategy and advocacy efforts, as well as its day-to-day operations. She also oversaw all external relations, programming, membership, administration and staff, and led the design and execution of the organization’s initiatives.

While at USRBC, Levinas dedicated six years as executive director of the Coalition for U.S.-Russia Trade, an organization created by USRBC that operated in collaboration with other leading business organization dedicated to maximizing deliverables for U.S. companies in negotiations on Russia’s WTO accession and subsequent Congressional approval of legislation. The Coalition enhanced U.S. companies’ global competitiveness by ensuring a level-playing field in their access to Russia’s market. Later, she was a key player in business coalitions strategizing and defending corporate concerns with respect to implementation issues associated with sanctions and export controls.

Earlier, Levinas worked at internationally-recognized law firms on international trade matters for foreign governments and private sector clients in the Western Hemisphere and in Asia, including on a ground-breaking international trade agreement and international trade disputes in the United States and before the World Trade Organization.

She has experience living and working abroad, including in Argentina at the renowned economic research institute Fundación Mediterránea, and she is fluent in Spanish.

She holds an undergraduate degree in International Relations and Spanish Literature from Tufts University, and she received her MSFS degree from Georgetown University, where she was a University Scholar and specialized in International Business Diplomacy.