Beth Baltzan is a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council GeoEconomics Center. Baltzan served as a trade policy adviser in the Biden administration, most recently as counselor for trade and investment to then US Trade Representative Katherine Tai.

Baltzan previously served as an attorney at the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) from 2003 to 2009. In 2009, Baltzan joined the Office of International Affairs at the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), working on oversight in the wake of the global financial crisis. In 2012, the PCAOB detailed Baltzan to the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, where she investigated banking practices. She then served as Democratic trade counsel for the House Ways and Means Committee from 2012 to 2016. She later returned to USTR to work on litigation matters. In 2017, Baltzan formed her own trade consultancy practice.  She has also served as a fellow at the Open Markets Institute.

Baltzan received her JD from the Georgetown University Law Center. She received a BA in international relations, with honors, from Stanford University.