Caroline Kaufman

Team Lead, Supply Chain Services at U.S. Department of Commerce

Washington, District of Columbia, United States

About

Team leader and international trade, transportation, and foreign policy professional. Currently leading the Industries Team in the International Trade Administration’s Office of Supply Chain Services, providing expertise on the range of critical transportation and logistics industries that move goods through the supply chain. Previous experience as a women’s economic empowerment policy advisor and as an international development professional supporting donor-funded contracts related to economic growth and policy; trade policy; barriers to trade and doing business; and regional economic integration. Graduate of the Presidential Management Fellows Program, with a Master in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and a Bachelor of Arts from Tufts University.

Experience

  • International Trade Administration (5 yrs 10 mos)
    • Team Lead, Office of Supply Chain Services
      Mar 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

      Leading a team of trade specialists and industry analysts providing expertise on the transportation and logistics services industries and developing policy to deliver strong results for U.S. industry and supply chain competitiveness.

    • Acting Team Lead, Office of Supply Chain Services
      Nov 2023 - Mar 2024 · 5 mos

      Served as Acting Team Lead for the Industries Team in the Office of Supply Chain Services, in addition to my international trade specialist responsibilities.

    • International Trade Specialist
      Sep 2022 - Mar 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos

      Office of Supply Chain Services (formerly Supply Chain, Professional, and Business Services). Trade specialist providing expertise and policy advice on air services, digitalization of trade processes, e-commerce, supply chain technology, supply chain sustainability, and multilateral engagement with APEC, WCO, and in other international fora such as IPEF. Served as Commerce Department liaison to the Data, Innovation, and Technology Subcommittee of the Department's Advisory Committee on Supply Chain Competitiveness (ACSCC).

  • Economic Policy Advisor, Presidential Management Fellow at U.S. Department of State
    Oct 2021 - Mar 2022 · 6 mos

    Detail to Secretary's Office of Global Women's Issues (S/GWI), Women's Economic Empowerment Unit, covering multilateral engagement (G7, G20, OECD, and OSCE), care economy, and legal and structural barriers to women’s economic empowerment.

  • Harvard Kennedy School (9 mos)
    • Course Assistant for former Deputy Secretary of State Wendy R. Sherman
      Jan 2020 - May 2020 · 5 mos

      Supported the continued development and implementation of the Policy Design and Delivery course.

    • Research Assistant for Eric Rosenbach
      Sep 2019 - Jan 2020 · 5 mos

      Contributed to the design and development of the Policy Design and Delivery course, a new core curriculum course for the Master in Public Policy program.

  • Research Assistant, Economic Diplomacy Initiative at Harvard's Belfer Center
    Mar 2019 - Apr 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos

    Conducted research on the impact of development aid on migration trends and on the aid relationship between the U.S. and the Northern Triangle.

  • Graduate Intern, U.S. Embassy Tbilisi at U.S. Department of State
    Jul 2019 - Aug 2019 · 2 mos

    Political and Economic Section Graduate Intern Recipient of 2019 Koch U.S. Foreign Policy Fellowship