Emily Cromwell Meyer serves as Trade Counsel and Corporate Export Compliance Officer for Aeroflex, Inc., an American high-tech company with offices in the UK, France, Germany, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan and Korea.  She oversees the development, management and implementation of the firm’s global Export Management System, which dictates how the business complies with U.S. and foreign laws pertaining to the transfer of defense and high tech commercial articles across international borders.  The compliance program Emily oversees ensures that the company protects its technology and hardware from denied entities (such as arms proliferators, drug traffickers and terrorists) around the globe.  Emily provides daily guidance and strategic advice to all global and domestic facilities for her company, often having to take into account the legal requirements of more than one country at the same time. 

Emily travels extensively for her job and has expertise in U.S., UK and Singaporean export control systems.  She works regularly with employees in China, Hong Kong, Singapore and the UK, providing training on U.S. and local laws and providing guidance to local business units on how to ensure compliance with all legal regimes claiming jurisdiction over their actions.  She regularly speaks at export control conferences, including those that focus on comparing export controls law in the U.S., the EU and various Asian countries. While at William and Mary, Emily took a number of international and comparative law classes, including Comparative Law, Public International Law, Law and Development, International Trade, Islamic Law, Litigation in Civil Legal Systems, and the Iraqi Special Tribunal Seminar.  Emily credits that curriculum paired with the outstanding faculty at William and Mary for her success in a dynamic international legal environment.  “The faculty at William and Mary presented international law as a given – something that must be understood and embraced in order to be an effective legal counsel – in today’s increasingly globalized world.  After spending three years in-house for a globalized American company, I have experienced the reality of that philosophy and deeply appreciate the academic and practical opportunities the international faculty presented to me as a student at William and Mary.”  Upon graduation from Marshall-Wythe, Emily clerked for the Honorable Tommy Miller, a Magistrate Judge in the Eastern District of Virginia.  Emily currently resides in Arlington, Virginia.