John L. Manzella is president of Manzella Trade Communications, a strategic communications and public affairs ffirm, and a world-recognized author and speaker on global business, policy, China, and today's leading economic issues. He provides insight and analysis to several of the world's largest corporations and associations, crafts communications programs to educate stakeholders and decision makers, and advocates positions to Members of Congress.

John has written 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, Buffalo News and Miami Herald. In addition, he's been featured in The Wall Street Journal and his work has appeared in The New York Times.

John is co-founder of BusinessWorldwide.TV, a web-based television network, and host of World Business Today, Drill Down, which has aired on Comcast, and the Manzella Report, a radio commentary syndicated in major cities across America. Each podcast is available free on iTunes.

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

John is a member of The District Export Council, a position appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce, and serves on various corporate boards. Earlier in his career, he 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.