Hun Quach

Hun Quach is a public affairs and senior retail executive with more than 20 years of experience helping global retail and consumer products companies align corporate priorities with evolving policy landscapes. Ms. Quach advises the C-suite on complex cross-border policy, regulatory exposure and reputational risks. Her expertise spans executive strategy, global advocacy, crisis response, strategic communications, risk mitigation, multistakeholder coalition management and engagement across corporate leadership, industry associations and senior government roles. She spearheaded cross-functional enterprise initiatives involving communications, legal, enterprise risk, supply chain, finance and sustainability teams to safeguard corporate reputation, manage regulatory exposure and maintain commercial continuity amid market disruptions.

Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Ms. Quach held leadership roles overseeing global, federal, state and local government relations functions for major U.S. consumer brands and retailers, including Gap Inc., Levi Strauss & Co. and Under Armour. In those roles, she focused on managing international trade and tariffs, supply chain, customs, international and domestic tax and sustainability strategies; navigating geopolitical developments and regulatory risks; enhancing strategic brand positioning; and coordinating high-stakes executive engagement with senior policymakers in the United States and key sourcing and retail markets.

Through her corporate work, Ms. Quach amassed extensive experience in coalition-building, including leading an apparel CEO group focused on mitigating tariffs, coordinating crisis and issues-management efforts and stakeholder engagement, and leading a new cross-functional corporate initiative to promote civic engagement on voting. Within the industry, she served as Vice President of International Trade at the Retail Industry Leaders Association (“RILA”), where she advised the world’s largest retail CEOs and executives on international trade, customs facilitation and enforcement and cross border logistics. During her tenure, she led the retail industry’s advocacy defeating the proposed Border Adjustment Tax and preventing tariffs on consumer products, while shaping and mitigating U.S. forced labor due diligence policy and supply chain transparency priorities.

Ms. Quach’s government experience includes serving as Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Congressional Affairs in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative in the Obama administration, where she led congressional engagement on major multilateral trade negotiations and federal legislation such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (“TPP”), Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (“T-TIP”) and Trade Promotion Authority (“TPA”). As a Policy Advisor to the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance under Chairman Max Baucus, she drafted and negotiated major trade, customs and economic legislation, advanced budget and appropriations priorities and oversaw federal agencies on behalf of committee leadership. She also served as a Legislative Assistant to U.S. Representative Adam Smith and as a Bill Emerson Congressional Hunger Fellow. In addition, Ms. Quach worked on several presidential and federal election campaigns.

Ms. Quach has been quoted and featured on international trade, tariffs, supply chain disruption and retail policy issues in the Financial Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, CNBC, The Washington Post, Axios and Politico.