Kira

Kira Alvarez is Vice President of Government Relations at Paramount Global. In this role she provides legislative advocacy and strategic guidance on issues affecting the company including, artificial intelligence, intellectual property rights, tax, antitrust, international trade, and privacy. She serves as the company's liaison to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and Latino organizations.

Before joining Paramount, Ms. Alvarez served as Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Intellectual Property (IP) and Chief Negotiator for IP Enforcement, in the Obama Administration, responsible for bilateral IP negotiations between the US and China and served as the U.S. co-chair of the IP Committee of the US-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade (JCCT). She negotiated the IP chapters of several US Free Trade Agreements, including those with Chile, Central America (CAFTA) and Morocco.

Ms. Alvarez’s work in the private sector includes representing the American Bar Association’s Section of Intellectual Property Rights, and she has also worked for AbbVie, Time Warner and Eli Lilly.

Ms. Alvarez was born and raised bilingual in Miami's Little Havana. She has a Juris Doctor and Master of Science in Foreign Service (JD/MSFS) from Georgetown University and Bachelor of Arts from Harvard College, where she was Editor in Chief of the Harvard International Review.