Dr. Paul Freedenberg is Mk Technology's Chairman. MK advises firms on trade and technology matters.
Previously he was the Vice President for Government Relations of AMT-The Association for Manufacturing Technology from 1998-2010. From 1989 to 1998, Dr. Freedenberg was an international trade consultant with the law firm of Baker & Botts, L.L.P. in Washington, D.C. He specialized in general international trade issues as well as technology transfer, export licensing, export financing, export enforcement, and both foreign and domestic banking and investment issues.
Dr. Freedenberg carries extensive experience in export control and trade issues. Freedenberg was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to serve as the first Under Secretary for Export Administration at the Department of Commerce. As Under Secretary, he had principal responsibility for devising, implementing, and enforcing the Department’s policies and programs for export administration and the defense industrial base. Prior to serving as Under Secretary from 1987-1989, Freedenberg administered both export control policy and the trade laws, such as anti-dumping and countervailing duty regulations, as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Trade Administration (1985-87).
Prior to his Commerce Department service, for seven years Dr. Freedenberg was Staff Director of the Senate Banking Committee’s Subcommittee on International Finance, with jurisdiction over issues such as international trade and finance, technology transfer, the multilateral banks, and the International Monetary Fund. He worked for the late Sen. John Heinz (R-PA) and former Sen. Jake Garn (R-UT). Prior to that he was Staff Economist to the Joint Committee on Defense Production, serving the Ranking Republican, Senator Edward Brooke (R-MA). He began his Capitol Hill career as Legislative Assistant to Senator J.Bennett Johnston (D-LA).
Dr. Freedenberg received his Ph.D. in 1972 from the University of Chicago and was an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana from 1970 to 1976, where he created a new program in national security studies. He is the author or co-author of several articles on export policy and international banking, including “The Commercial Perspective,” in Export Controls in Transition, edited by Gary Bertsch and Steven Elliot-Gover (Duke, 1992).