Daniella Taveau was a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s GeoTech Center. She is a regulatory and global trade strategist and the founder of Bold Text Strategies. Taveau is an internationally recognized expert in developing global business and regulatory strategies. She has extensive experience working with senior political officials and advises multinational corporations in six continents in the areas of international trade, finance, agriculture, food safety, chemicals, pesticides, new technologies, cosmetics, and personal care, intergovernmental organizations, and information technology.  

Prior to starting her own firm, Taveau was a strategist for the law firm of King & Spalding and was an international trade negotiator with the US Environmental Protection Agency where she represented the United States at the World Trade Organization (WTO); all US Free Trade Agreements including the Transpacific Partnership, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (US/EU FTA), and the US Korea Free Trade Agreement; the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (UN FAO); and the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC). Taveau also served as an international policy analyst with the US Food and Drug Administration and as an executive for a global cosmetics company for ten years. 

A classically trained and accomplished opera singer and pianist and fluent in six languages, Taveau is the chief operating officer of Embassy Series, a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering international understanding through musical diplomacy. In addition to a degree in business administration, Taveau has done extensive post-graduate work in the sciences and holds an MBA from the Robert H. Smith Executive School of Business where she is an executive in residence.