Hera Abbasi

Government & Regulatory Affairs Executive

IBM

Hera Abbasi is a Government and Regulatory Affairs Executive at IBM, where she works on market access and global trade across a range of tech issues.

Prior to IBM, she was the bicameral, bipartisan Hill strategist and lobbyist for the Coalition of Services Industries. Previously, Ms. Abbasi was a Congressional Advisor in the State Department’s Bureau of Legislative Affairs, where she served as Congress’s point of contact on all Europe issues, including TTIP, Russia, Ukraine, Brexit, Turkey, NATO, the European Union, Ambassadorial nominations, and Congressional Delegations.

Ms. Abbasi also worked on Capitol Hill for nearly a decade, including with House leadership. She is a co-chair of Women in International Trade's Africa and Middle East

section and was selected as a 2017 Fellow for the Next Generation National Security Leaders Program at the Center for a New American Security. She is also a member of the U.S.-Asia Institute's Congressional Circle.

Ms. Abbasi received her bachelor’s degree from Harvard College and her master’s degree from the Naval War College. Her languages include Spanish, Hindu/Urdu, Arabic, and Latin. She is the recipient of the Secretary’s Meritorious Honor Award and the Secretary’s Superior Honor Award; while on Capitol Hill, she was cited as a “Hill Staffer to Watch” in Foreign Policy’s blog, The Cable. She is a native of Boston, MA and lives in Northern Virginia with her family.