{"page_id":7,"name":"Tricia Paoletta","company":"HWG LLP","position":"Partner","bio":"Patricia (Tricia) Paoletta focuses her practice on digital infrastructure, trade and technology policy.\r\nTricia provides advice on regulatory, trade and legislative policy to clients before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), congress and the Administration. Her clients include providers of digital infrastructure, including satellite, cloud, submarine cable and drones. She advises providers of broadband services on regulatory compliance and policy issues facing emerging technology, like Artificial Intelligence or A.I.\r\n\r\nTricia has accrued considerable experience with digital infrastructure trade and policy in the public sector. She was senior advisor to the International Bureau Chief and Office Director at the FCC. Patricia subsequently served as Director of Telecommunications Trade Policy in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, Executive Office of the President, where she worked on the WTO Information Technology Agreement (ITA) and the Basic Telecommunications Agreement, NAFTA implementation, and bilateral agreements with China, the European Union, Japan, and South Korea. After USTR, Patricia served as Majority Counsel to the House Energy and Commerce Committee. She then moved to Level 3 Communications, as Vice President, Government Relations.\r\n\r\nTricia served as chair of the FCC\u2019s Advisory Committee for the 2023 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-23). She has served as a delegate to numerous meetings at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU); including WRC-23 and CITEL (the Committee on International Telecommunications at the Organization of American States) PCC-II. Tricia has secured licenses for several international providers, negotiating with the various security agencies to obtain mutually-agreeable entry conditions, and provides regulatory and compliance advice to those licensees. She represents the wireless trade association 5G Americas and has advocated for the association on mobile broadband before congress and the FCC.\r\n\r\nTricia is on the Pacific Telecommunications Council\u2019s Advising Council. She is also a member of the USTR Alumni Association, Washington International Trade Association, the Federal Communications Bar Association (FCBA), Women\u2019s Foreign Policy Group, and Women in Technology. Tricia has been on the Board of Advisors for the Inter-American Dialogue\u2019s Latin America Telecom Advisor, Co-Chair of the American Bar Association International Communications Committee, and served as a member of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce\u2019s Technology Policy Committee. She was also on the Steering Committee of the Transatlantic Roundtable on Telecommunications and Information Technology of the European Institute.\r\n\r\nTricia has served as the Chair of the FCC\u2019s National Reliability and Interoperability Council (NRIC) Steering Committee and as a Board Member for the Voice on the Net Coalition. She has had multiple leadership roles in the Federal Communications Bar Association, including as Co-Chair of the FCBA\u2019s Annual Seminar Committee; as a member of the FCBA\u2019s Ad Hoc Speakers Committee; as Co-Chair for the FCBA International Practice Committee; and as a Co-Chair of the FCBA Legislative Practice Committee and serves as a panelist occasionally for those Committees.","twitter_url":null,"linkedin_url":"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/tricia-paoletta-5b35842\/","filename":"OjUETbueI516LeVQlKfbAzkqUrfM1QmuTKAbEx8J.jpg","status":"1","sort_order":114,"updated_at":"2024-02-05T16:20:15.000000Z","created_at":"2024-02-05T16:20:15.000000Z","id":46}