John L. Manzella, president of Manzella Trade Communications, is a strategic communications consultant with expertise in global business and economic-based issues. He also is a world-recognized author and speaker on international business and policy, China, and today's new economic and political realities. John focuses on shaping opinions, advocating positions to Members of Congress, and providing strategic analysis to several of the world's largest corporations, associations and government agencies.

John is the author of several books, including Grasping Globalization: Its Impact and Your Corporate Response, and more than 600 articles. His op-eds are distributed by McClatchy-Tribune to over 500 newspapers and have appeared in the Houston Chronicle, Denver Post, Dallas Morning News, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, San Diego Union-Tribune and The Miami Herald. In addition, he's been featured in The Wall Street Journal and his work has appeared in The New York Times.

John hosts the Manzella Report, a radio commentary syndicated in Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Miami, San Francisco, Seattle, Houston, and many other cities across America. Each podcast is available free on iTunes. He is co-founder of BusinessWorldwideTV.com, a web-based television network that focuses on international business programming, and host of World Business Today and Drill Down, which has aired on Comcast.

John has crafted position papers, published newsletters and reports, managed issue-oriented grassroots campaigns, and spoken at hundreds of conferences. In fact, The Singapore Learning Academy has identified John as one of the world's top speakers.

As a member of The District Export Council, a position appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce, John serves on the national Legislative Affairs subcommittee. Additionally, he sits on various corporate boards. Earlier in his career, John served as Executive Director of goTRADE New York, an advocacy coalition sponsored by the Washington, D.C.-based Business Roundtable, gained experience on the Subcommittee on Economic Stabilization of the Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs in Washington, D.C., and held the position of Director of Marketing and Sales for two manufacturers.