Education
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George Washington University, M.P.A., State and Local Policy Analysis, 1994
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University of Connecticut, B.A., 1990
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As Co-Chair of the Firm's Homeland Security, Defense and Technology Transfer Practice Group, Norma Krayem provides strategic advice on key issues in a range of areas, including transportation, defense, and homeland security, international trade, environmental, and appropriations issues. She applies her extensive experience with key national issues in the policy-making arena based on nearly 20 years working in and with state, local, and federal government. Ms. Krayem helps clients evaluate strategies to build and maintain a competitive edge.
During a distinguished career in Washington, Ms. Krayem has held executive-level positions in the U.S. Departments of Transportation, State, and Commerce, as well as in FEMA. She provided key insight and guidance to major officials at the White House, in the Congress, and at state and local levels around the country. She worked closely on the passage of key legislation such as TEA-21, the TREAD Act, the creation of a new agency FMCSA, NAFTA, GATT, and China MFN, among others. During her tenure at these agencies, she worked on nearly 100 bilateral trade and aviation-related negotiations.
As deputy chief of staff at the U.S. Department of Transportation, Ms. Krayem provided strategic oversight and served as senior advisor to Secretary Rodney Slater on domestic and international policy, regulatory, legislative, budget, safety, and security covering aviation, maritime, rail, highway, and transit issues for a department with a $60 billion budget and 100,000 employees worldwide.
Ms. Krayem also served as director of special projects for the Denver Summit of the Eight, U.S. Department of State, serving as the lead for the Summit to all embassy staff for the G8 countries, including Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and Russia.
At the U.S. Department of Commerce, both within the Office of the Secretary and the International Trade Administration, Ms. Krayem held various senior positions.During that time, she focused her efforts on counseling state and local governments, as well as private sector companies, on the keys to exporting, from identifying export finance opportunities and understanding export controls to helping companies find matchmaking opportunities throughout the globe.
Ms. Krayem has also worked extensively with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) since its creation in 2002. She has helped private sector clients successfully identify funding opportunities within the Department, created public-private partnerships with the various DHS agencies, and assisted in the negotiations with the procurement officers within the Department. She has helped public sector entities identify and apply for applicable grant programs within the Department. In all of these efforts, she works on a daily basis with officials in the Office of the Secretary, key officials in the Policy Office, the Transportation Security Administration, the Customs and Border Protection Agency, FEMA, the Fire Administration, and HSARPA, among others. She also works closely with the White House Homeland Security Counsel on policy and regulatory issues affecting the DHS.
Ms. Krayem works on a daily basis with a variety of Executive Branch agencies in addition to the Department of Homeland Security, including the U.S. Departments of Transportation, State, Commerce, HUD, Education, EPA, and others. She also works extensively with key committees on the Hill including Appropriations, Homeland Security Committee, Transportation and Infrastructure, Commerce, Ways and Means, International Affairs, Banking, and Foreign Relations. She continues to successfully help both public and private sector clients ensure that legislation is inclusive of them in various ways from ensuring eligibility requirements to providing agencies with guidance on policy and regulatory procedures.
Professional Affiliations:
American Bar Association – Section on Air and Space Law; and Section on Public Utility, Communications and Transportation Law
American Association of Public Administrators
American Society for Public Administration
International Who’s Who of Professionals
Women in Government Relations
WTS International Advisory Board
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