Good Practice

9/11 – the day that changed the whole world…and my career

Issue 16.
September 2021

Author
John Pisa-Relli
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John Pisa-Relli currently serves as consulting legal counsel to a multinational aerospace and defense company headquartered in the United States, where he advises on a wide range of trade compliance matters. For the previous ten years, he directed the internal trade compliance program for Accenture, the world’s largest business consulting firm. Prior to joining Accenture, John served in the US federal government, practiced law privately, and served as in-house director of trade compliance with a multinational aerospace and defense group headquartered in Europe. Connect with John on LinkedIn..

On the recent anniversary of the terrorist attacks of 9/11, I was struck by how clearly I still remembered exactly where I was and what I was doing on that day 20 years ago, and how it changed my life.

My madeleine de Proust – to borrow an idea from the famous novel Remembrance of Things Past about a sensation that triggers vivid recollection – was the weather. September 11, 2021 was a crisp, sunny, late summer day. It was almost unseasonably pleasant for the Washington, DC metropolitan are...

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