Shenai briefed journalists in October 2022: Deglobalization and How to Cover It. 

Neena Shenai is a nonresident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where her research focuses on global trade, international economics, and globalization. She is also an in-house attorney at Medtronic. Shenai has served as a trade counsel for the House Committee on Ways and Means, where she advised Rep. Dave Camp (R-MI) and later Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), who served as the successive chairmen of the committee. She has also worked as a trade policy counsel for the Senate Republican Policy Committee and as the senior adviser to the assistant secretary for export administration in the Bureau of Industry and Security at the US Department of Commerce.

Previously, Shenai was an associate in the international trade group of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP, a professional trainee in the Rules Division of the World Trade Organization, and a law clerk to the Hon. Evan J. Wallach at the US Court of International Trade. The author of several papers and articles on international economic issues, Shenai has served on task forces and projects at both the Council on Foreign Relations and AEI, including as co-chair of the Prosperity Working Group of AEI’s American Internationalism Project.

Shenai has a JD from Vanderbilt University Law School and attended Georgetown University Law Center as a visiting student. She received an MPhil in international relations from St. Antony’s College at Oxford University and a BA in Latin and political science from Swarthmore College.