Constance Anne Pence, a non-lawyer, is a senior international advisor in Covington’s Washington, DC office. As a policy-oriented economist for over 20 years, Ms. Pence has tremendous experience advising sovereign and corporate clients, as well as coalitions in both domestic and international policy settings. Before joining Covington, she was the special advisor to the newly-created USG Millennium Challenge Corporation. Ms. Pence also served with the U.S. State Department for 16 years. For eight of those years she was the Department’s G8 Summit policy coordinator in the Office of the Under Secretary for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs. Ms. Pence worked closely with two administrations on a broad range of international economic and national security issues involving the White House and US interagency process, the G8, the UN and other international organizations, and developing and emerging economies.
