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innovation and economic transformations underway on energy systems, advanced manufacturing and the future of work. Ms. Wince-Smith is frequently called upon to testify in front of the U.S. Congress and appears regularly on global television news networks including
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Ms. Wince-Smith currently serves on the advisory committee of the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) and UNICEF. She also serves as a commissioner on the Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property, as a member of Purdue University’s Strategic Research Advisory Council
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Competitiveness Frontiers.” The Commissioners will focus on emerging challenges and opportunities and develop a future oriented policy roadmap to jumpstart flagging productivity, respond to new global competitors and address the impacts of ever accelerating technology driven transformation.
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