Ernest H. Preeg, Ambassador (Ret.), Ph.D., is the Senior Advisor for Trade and Finance. He has extensive experience in international affairs, including service as the American Ambassador to Haiti from 1981 to 83.

Preeg was a Foreign Service Officer for 25 years, and was a Member of the U.S. Delegation to the Kennedy Round of GATT negotiations in Geneva. 

Among his many previous high-profile positions, Preeg was the William M. Scholl Chair in International Business at The Center for Strategic and International Studies and a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute.

He is the author of numerous books and publications, including The Decline and Fall of Bretton Woods? (MAPI, 2012) and India and China: An Advanced Technology Race and How the United States Should Respond (MAPI and CSIS, 2008).