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 Environmental Technology Trade Association (ETTAC)

 
 
  In 1994 Ms. Ginn was appointed to the Environmental Technologies Trade Advisory Committee (ETTAC), a thirty-five member industry advisory board. She was appointed under the authority of the 1994 congressional bill: Jobs Through Trade Expansion Act (P.L. 103-392). It was the ETTAC’s mission to provide private sector input and analysis to the Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee (TPCC). In 1996 she was asked by the members of the ETTAC to write the Recommendations Report for the TPCC and its 19 federal agencies.  On January 7, 1997, Ms. Ginn received a second-term appointment to serve on the ETTAC. On February 12, 1999, she was asked to serve a third term by Secretary of the US Department of Commerce, William Daley.  Throughout 1998 and 1999 she supported the US Trade Representative’s staff with trade standards negotiations as part of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation organization early voluntary liberalization in trade and investment negotiations.  She is the Chief Editor and lead author of the White Paper published by the Market Access Subcommittee of the ETTAC.  

 U.S. Trade and Development Agency
   
  In 1995 and 1996 Ginn & Associates, Inc. served as Program Planner for developing the conceptual framework for the cleanup of the Dock Sud in Buenos Aires, Argentina.  Ms. Ginn along with Carlos Galvalisi, P.E. and others developed a program for financing a cleanup initiative at Argentina's number-one hazardous waste site.  The plan was presented to the Governor of the Province in November, 1994.  In 1995/1996 the U.S. Trade and Development Agency funded a Feasibility Study of the area.  Ms. Ginn’s published articles in the local press (Gerencia Ambiental) outlined some funding mechanisms for environmental management.

 North America Industrial Investments, Ltd. (NAIIC)
 
  For several years throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s Ms. Ginn helped to host various delegations from China sponsored by NAIIC. NAIIC is currently taking an equity position in several energy sector projects in the province of Liaoning in Northeast China.  Ms. Ginn assisted NAIIC in the development of a plan for an Environmental Industry Park in Anshan.  She also facilitated introductions between management personnel from Swedish International Patient Services and key decision makers at the Hua Mei Medical Center, the People’s Hospital and the Children’s Hospital in Beijing, China.   
     
Asia Environmental Partnership (AEP): U.S. Agency for International Development
  During the spring of 1997 Ms. Ginn provided logistical support for a US Agency for International Development (US AID), Asia Environmental Partnership tour by 15 Southeast Asian government officials.  
     
U.S. Environmental Training Institute  
   
  In 1994, in affiliation with North Seattle Community College, & the US Environmental Technology Institute (ETI), Ms. Ginn (through Ginn & Associates, Inc.) helped to design and implement a two-week training program for 17 students from Southeast Asia.  Coursework was built on the need for conducting environmental audits of properties that had been contaminated during industrial development.  
     
     

 

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