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Not so FAQs: Ellen Smith

What led you to export controls?

I started my career working for a freight forwarder in the ocean export department (before the internet). I then went to law school at night and eventually took an associate position with a boutique international trade law firm in Chicago. When I expanded my family, I was fortunate enough to land an in-house Compliance Counsel position at Jockey International and for the next seven years focused my career on customs work. (My legal friends used to say I was “...

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