Myron Brilliant
Myron A. Brilliant is executive vice president and head of International Affairs at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, on the board of the NATO think-tank Atlantic Council, the spooky Atlantik-Brücke, and on the board of the National Endowment for Democracy sub-contractor Center for International Private Enterprise.
Career
Before joining the Chamber in 1994, Brilliant was an attorney with Stewart and Stewart in Washington, D.C. He received his J.D. from American University’s Washington College of Law and his B.A. in government and politics from the University of Maryland.
He leads the largest international affairs team of any U.S. business association, representing the Chamber and its members before the U.S. government, foreign governments, and international business organizations. During his tenure as head of the international program, the Chamber of Commerce has greatly expanded its global footprint with representatives in Beijing, Brasília, Tel Aviv, Istanbul, and Mexico City.
Brilliant’s responsibilities extend to management oversight of 14 bilateral business councils in countries as diverse as Brazil, Egypt, Japan, Korea, Colombia, Cuba, and the U.K. He has pioneered new high-level Chamber business strategic dialogues with business and government leaders in Mexico, China and Saudi Arabia. In addition, under his leadership, the Chamber has launched key regional programs such as the Israel Business Initiative and the Africa Business Center.
Over his career, Brilliant has directed and led a number of important lobbying campaigns for congressional passage of trade agreements including with Australia (to huge advantage of US pharmaceutical companies), Singapore, Colombia, Panama, and South Korea, as well as legislation to ease access for U.S. companies in Russia and China.
Brilliant is on the board of the NATO think-tank Atlantic Council, the U.S. Council for International Business, and the Center for International Private Enterprise. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the National Committee on United States-China Relations and serves as an economic development adviser to the governor of China’s Guangdong Province.
He is frequently quoted in the corporate media on a broad range of issues relating to international business and trade policy and is a regular guest on CNBC, CNN, and other news programs. Previously, Brilliant was the Chamber’s vice president for Asia, where he significantly expanded the reach and impact of the organization’s Asia program. In January 2007, Washingtonian magazine dubbed Brilliant a key player in its “Who’s Who Guide” of influential leaders on U.S.-China economic policy.[1]
