Andrea Durkin is the founder and principal of Sparkplug, LLC an independent consulting firm whose clients include Fortune 200 companies in the life sciences, food and agriculture sectors as well as major industry trade associations. She serves as Editor-in-Chief of a website launched in September 2016 called TradeVistas, dedicated to engaging the public in ways that relate trade to own lives and communities. She recently founded Consensus Learning, LLC which is developing a digital tool to teach trade negotiation techniques.