Terence Murphy, O.B.E.
Chairman
1823 Jefferson Place NW
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 202-621-5483
Fax: 202-463-4959
Email: tmurphy@mktechnology.com
1823 Jefferson Place NW
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 202-621-5483
Fax: 202-463-4959
Email: tmurphy@mktechnology.com
As CEO of MK Technology from 2004, Terry Murphy led its expansion to the West Coast, Europe and Asia, recruiting a leading Japanese security trade-controls executive from Mitsui as Head of MK's Asia Region and Rolls-Royce’s recently-retired Head of Global Export Controls as Head of UK Issues. In addition to the latter, in 2007 he recruited to the MK team five members of the U.S. Government’s elite Senior Executive Service corps, the general-officer equivalent in the senior civil service. Other stars added from the private sector in 2007 include an electrical engineer and export-controls official in Hewlett Packard who for over a decade has been an advisor to the DoC on information-systems tech transfer and export regulation.
In 2000-2001, Terry Murphy was named by successive Secretaries of Commerce to the Bureau of Industry and Security's advisory committee on strategic trade regulation (RPTAC). As Chair of its Working Group on Compliance and Enforcement, he led the advisory process that preceded new Penalty Guidelines. He has been a Board Member of the Industry Coalition on Technology Transfer since the ICOTT was founded in the early 1980’s.
In 2003 by invitation of the Chinese Government and the U.S. Embassy-Beijing, he participated in the Sino-U.S. Export Control Seminar in Shanghai, and in follow-up meetings in Beijing and Washington with a leading PRC think-tank. Since 2004 a Senior Associate of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, in 2000-2001 he helped develop CSIS recommendations on munitions export reform leading to a Presidential Review. In that review, he recruited and led an expert national-security team, including CSIS, to provide requested legal and policy advice to senior levels of the Defense Department. He collaborates closely with CSIS on strategic technology transfer, defense cooperation, and the relationship between scientific communication and national security. He helped write the 2005 CSIS/National Academy of Sciences White Paper on "deemed exports", and he co-chaired the National Academies workshop on that subject. In 2006, he was lead witness before the initial public meeting of the Commerce Department's blue-ribbon "Deemed Exports Advisory Committee" that led in December 2007 to the landmark report on The Deemed Exports Rule in the Era of Globalization. In 2006-07, he helped to prepare a CSIS "trusted partners" working paper on U.S.-UK defense cooperation. In 2007, that paper was followed by defense-cooperation treaties between the U.S.-UK and the U.S.-Australia.
Terry Murphy has played significant roles in many of the major trade controls and sanctions disputes from the late Cold War to the present day; in each case, his clients achieved their objectives. Those cases included year-long negotiations in 1999-2000 with the U.S. Government (including the NSA, FBI and National Security Council) to obtain "national treatment" status for encryption used by the world leader in mobile telephony; trade sanctions against Burma (in 2000, he and his high-tech industry clients won a landmark 9-0 victory in the Supreme Court); major technology transfers to China and Vietnam; and the extraterritorial reach of U.S. trade controls and sanctions.
In the late 1990's he devised the legislative and diplomatic strategy that removed "trade sanctions" from the Iran and Libya Sanctions Act, setting the stage for later changes in U.S. policy. As lead advocate and negotiator for a British firm swept up in an "economic-warfare" operation against the former USSR in the landmark "Siberian Gas Pipeline" export embargo, he helped reach a settlement at heads-of-government level that protected his client. For this and other contributions to British-American relations, in 1993 he was awarded an O.B.E. (Officer, Order of the British Empire). Formerly resident in Brussels, in 2003 he was appointed Foreign Trade Adviser to the Belgian Embassy in Washington. In 2007, he was made a knight Officer (O.L.) of the Order of Leopold, the highest grade open to non-Belgian private citizens in that country’s most senior honorary Order.
For a decade, he has organized and chaired the gold-standard Global Trade Controls conferences in Europe and occasionally in Asia. Praised as "the definitive Export Controls conference", under his leadership the GTC became a unique forum where government officials, scholars, strategists and executives from around the world exchange views on developments in strategic trade controls including economic sanctions. With MK’s German partners the AWA Group, he leads annual seminars in Germany on U.S. Export Controls.
He is the sole or principal author of articles on antidumping and international trade, strategic trade, product liability and transatlantic diplomacy in U.S. and European journals. He has been a lecturer or panelist in Argentina, Belgium, Britain, Canada, China, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Sweden, Switzerland, and the USA. He was Founding Co-Editor of the standard Coping With U.S. Export Controls desk books. He has been interviewed on the BBC, NPR and German radio, and in 2004 he delivered a paper on military and strategic issues at Harvard.
Following two years as a trial lawyer in the Justice Department and three years as an antitrust trial associate, he was a partner for 11 years in the well-known Washington law firm Wald, Harkrader & Ross. In 1986, he formed the boutique international law firm Murphy Ellis Weber where he practiced until joining MK Technology in November 2003. He is a Founding Director and former Chair of the British-American Business Association in Washington, and was honored by the British Government as the BABA's "driving force." For several years he divided his time between Washington and Brussels. He speaks German and French, and he reads Dutch. A graduate of Harvard and the University of Michigan, Terry Murphy holds a J.D. from the latter in public and international law with highest honors then awarded, and he was a maritime trial lawyer in the Department of Justice Honors Program. Before studying law, he served several Cold War tours in the Mediterranean and elsewhere at sea as a surface warfare officer in the U.S. Navy. As a junior Lieutenant he was commended by the Atlantic Fleet's Commander-in-Chief for outstanding performance.
For three decades, he was a member of the Michigan Law School's Committee of Visitors, and he is a longtime member of the American Law Institute. He is a past member of the ABA's Administrative Law Council, two of whose former chairmen are sitting Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. Other interests include history, literature, history of science, theatre, music, boating and baseball. In 1999, he conceived and helped negotiate the long-running Residency of the Royal Shakespeare Company at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. In 2005, he received the only Commendation from the RSC for pro bono publico service to the RSC in America.
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In 2000-2001, Terry Murphy was named by successive Secretaries of Commerce to the Bureau of Industry and Security's advisory committee on strategic trade regulation (RPTAC). As Chair of its Working Group on Compliance and Enforcement, he led the advisory process that preceded new Penalty Guidelines. He has been a Board Member of the Industry Coalition on Technology Transfer since the ICOTT was founded in the early 1980’s.
In 2003 by invitation of the Chinese Government and the U.S. Embassy-Beijing, he participated in the Sino-U.S. Export Control Seminar in Shanghai, and in follow-up meetings in Beijing and Washington with a leading PRC think-tank. Since 2004 a Senior Associate of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, in 2000-2001 he helped develop CSIS recommendations on munitions export reform leading to a Presidential Review. In that review, he recruited and led an expert national-security team, including CSIS, to provide requested legal and policy advice to senior levels of the Defense Department. He collaborates closely with CSIS on strategic technology transfer, defense cooperation, and the relationship between scientific communication and national security. He helped write the 2005 CSIS/National Academy of Sciences White Paper on "deemed exports", and he co-chaired the National Academies workshop on that subject. In 2006, he was lead witness before the initial public meeting of the Commerce Department's blue-ribbon "Deemed Exports Advisory Committee" that led in December 2007 to the landmark report on The Deemed Exports Rule in the Era of Globalization. In 2006-07, he helped to prepare a CSIS "trusted partners" working paper on U.S.-UK defense cooperation. In 2007, that paper was followed by defense-cooperation treaties between the U.S.-UK and the U.S.-Australia.
Terry Murphy has played significant roles in many of the major trade controls and sanctions disputes from the late Cold War to the present day; in each case, his clients achieved their objectives. Those cases included year-long negotiations in 1999-2000 with the U.S. Government (including the NSA, FBI and National Security Council) to obtain "national treatment" status for encryption used by the world leader in mobile telephony; trade sanctions against Burma (in 2000, he and his high-tech industry clients won a landmark 9-0 victory in the Supreme Court); major technology transfers to China and Vietnam; and the extraterritorial reach of U.S. trade controls and sanctions.
In the late 1990's he devised the legislative and diplomatic strategy that removed "trade sanctions" from the Iran and Libya Sanctions Act, setting the stage for later changes in U.S. policy. As lead advocate and negotiator for a British firm swept up in an "economic-warfare" operation against the former USSR in the landmark "Siberian Gas Pipeline" export embargo, he helped reach a settlement at heads-of-government level that protected his client. For this and other contributions to British-American relations, in 1993 he was awarded an O.B.E. (Officer, Order of the British Empire). Formerly resident in Brussels, in 2003 he was appointed Foreign Trade Adviser to the Belgian Embassy in Washington. In 2007, he was made a knight Officer (O.L.) of the Order of Leopold, the highest grade open to non-Belgian private citizens in that country’s most senior honorary Order.
For a decade, he has organized and chaired the gold-standard Global Trade Controls conferences in Europe and occasionally in Asia. Praised as "the definitive Export Controls conference", under his leadership the GTC became a unique forum where government officials, scholars, strategists and executives from around the world exchange views on developments in strategic trade controls including economic sanctions. With MK’s German partners the AWA Group, he leads annual seminars in Germany on U.S. Export Controls.
He is the sole or principal author of articles on antidumping and international trade, strategic trade, product liability and transatlantic diplomacy in U.S. and European journals. He has been a lecturer or panelist in Argentina, Belgium, Britain, Canada, China, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Sweden, Switzerland, and the USA. He was Founding Co-Editor of the standard Coping With U.S. Export Controls desk books. He has been interviewed on the BBC, NPR and German radio, and in 2004 he delivered a paper on military and strategic issues at Harvard.
Following two years as a trial lawyer in the Justice Department and three years as an antitrust trial associate, he was a partner for 11 years in the well-known Washington law firm Wald, Harkrader & Ross. In 1986, he formed the boutique international law firm Murphy Ellis Weber where he practiced until joining MK Technology in November 2003. He is a Founding Director and former Chair of the British-American Business Association in Washington, and was honored by the British Government as the BABA's "driving force." For several years he divided his time between Washington and Brussels. He speaks German and French, and he reads Dutch. A graduate of Harvard and the University of Michigan, Terry Murphy holds a J.D. from the latter in public and international law with highest honors then awarded, and he was a maritime trial lawyer in the Department of Justice Honors Program. Before studying law, he served several Cold War tours in the Mediterranean and elsewhere at sea as a surface warfare officer in the U.S. Navy. As a junior Lieutenant he was commended by the Atlantic Fleet's Commander-in-Chief for outstanding performance.
For three decades, he was a member of the Michigan Law School's Committee of Visitors, and he is a longtime member of the American Law Institute. He is a past member of the ABA's Administrative Law Council, two of whose former chairmen are sitting Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. Other interests include history, literature, history of science, theatre, music, boating and baseball. In 1999, he conceived and helped negotiate the long-running Residency of the Royal Shakespeare Company at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. In 2005, he received the only Commendation from the RSC for pro bono publico service to the RSC in America.
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