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Robert Kramer Vice President, Global Public Policy

Robert “Bob” Kramer joined the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) in May of 2001 as vice president for Global Public Policy. He is responsible for driving the association’s worldwide public policy, legislative and regulatory efforts and initiatives for CompTIA’s 20,000 members.  This includes overseeing CompTIA’s public policy offices in Washington, D.C.; Brussels, Belgium; Bratislava, Slovakia; Hong Kong, China; and Sao Paulo, Brazil.  Mr. Kramer is a member of the USTR-Commerce Department sponsored Industry Trade Advisory Committee for Services.  He also is a member of the Board of the European Commission sponsored e-Skills Industry Leadership Board.

Prior to CompTIA, Mr. Kramer managed International Government Relations at Bank of America, representing the bank on a variety of international, banking, trade and technology issues for eight years.  He has also served as chairman of the Coalition of Service Industries' Electronic Commerce Working Group; on the Department of Commerce’s Electronic Commerce Trade Advisory Committee; and as a U.S. representative on the e-Commerce Working Group for the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas.  In addition, Mr. Kramer was a founding member of the transatlantic Financial Leaders Group, which played a key role in successfully completing the 1997 WTO Financial Services Agreement.

Mr. Kramer received a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in Foreign Service from Georgetown University, as well as a master’s degree in medieval history from The Catholic University of America.

Published recently

“Protocols for Government Procurement of Software Assets”
Presentation at the International Conference in e-Procurement in the Asia Development Bank Institute Lecture Series, DVD, 2006.

“Software for Development, Is Free Open Source Software the Answer”
Panel Discussion at the World Summit on the Information Society, Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme, UNDP, DVD, November 2005.