Katrin is the president and founder of the New Markets Lab, a nonprofit law and development center; a visiting professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center; and a senior associate with the Global Food and Water Security Program of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Her areas of focus include international economic law, law and development, international trade law and policy, agricultural law and regulation, comparative economic law, trade corridors, and African regional trade agreements. She sits on a number of nonprofit boards and advisory boards, including the advisory boards of the Law and International Development Societies (LIDS) at Harvard and Georgetown Law Schools, the Yeutter Institute of International Trade and Finance at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the Bretton Woods Committee, and the Trade Policy Forum. She holds degrees from Harvard Law School and Creighton University and was the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship to study international economics.