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He also served for many years as Senior Partner of a commercial law firm where his legal practice focused on International and Financial Services Law.<\/p>\n<p>He has served as a Senior Advisor to the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress, the American Society of Association Executives, The World Trade Association, the International Center for Sustainable Development, the Congressional Awards Foundation and Chief Executive Magazine, the \u201cClub Journal\u201d of Fortune 500 CEOs.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Grobmyer helped to organize and coordinate a joint meeting of the Club de Madrid (more than 115 former Presidents and Prime Ministers of more than 80 nations) and the P80 Group Foundation (works with large pension, and sovereign wealth funds). This conference led to the signing of the Little Rock Accord, an agreement to help accelerate the deployment of technologies which can help address growing shortages of global resources related to energy, water, environment, food and medical services.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Grobmyer currently serves as a Chairman of the Joint Task Force and Planning Committee working to implement the Accord, including the formation of the Global Solutions Institute and it\u2019s Fulbright Initiative to accelerate the deployment of problem solving technologies in more that 180 countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Grobmyer, graduated from Washington and Lee University and the  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"portfolio_category":[12],"portfolio_skills":[],"portfolio_tags":[],"class_list":["post-674","avada_portfolio","type-avada_portfolio","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_category-speakers"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mark W. 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