Thea Kendler is a partner with Mayer Brown, where she co-leads the law firm’s global Sanctions & Export Controls practice. As a former Senate-confirmed U.S. Commerce Department Assistant Secretary for Export Administration, Thea advises clients on export controls and sanctions-related compliance and investigations. Clients rely on Thea’s unique background of more than 20 years of regulatory, prosecutorial, and policymaking experience at Commerce and in the Justice Department’s National Security Division, where she led investigations and prosecuted cases involving export controls, sanctions, and economic espionage. Thea is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania Law School.