Kenneth N. Frankel has been president of the CCA since 2014 and was previously Chairman from 2007 to 2014.
He was awarded The Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal by the Governor General of Canada in 2013 for his work on behalf of the CCA and for leadership on other hemispheric public policy initiatives. Mr. Frankel was the Legal Advisor to the Secretary General at the Organization of American States from 2008-2013.
He is co-host of the podcast, “two gringos with questions”, with Chris Sabatini (Chatham House / London) and a frequent commentator in media in Canada and elsewhere in the hemisphere.
Mr. Frankel has been a Visiting Professor of Law at Ghent University (Belgium) since 2014 where he teaches international commercial negotiation. For several years, he was
an Adjunct Professor of Law at American University (Washington, D.C.), and at Western University (Canada). He was Chair of the Latin American Practice Group at Torys, and held General Counsel and/or International Council positions for Alcatel in Canada, Spain, Poland and Germany. He started his career as a Law Clerk to U.S. Federal District Court Judge Eugene P. Spellman in Miami during the “Miami Vice” era.
Mr. Frankel was a research associate with Professor John Womack, Jr. (Harvard University) as a Reynolds Fellow in Mexico, and a political writer in Mexico and Central America as a Dartmouth College Public Affairs Fellow.
Mr. Frankel holds a A.B. cum laude, High Distinction from Dartmouth College in Latin American Studies and a J.D. from Northeastern University.
Mr. Frankel is a Senior Advisor at Blue Star Strategies (Washington, D.C.) and a Board Director of Global Americans.
