Produced by: The Peter J. Tobin College of Business
February 23, 2018
The Tobin Seminar Series begins its spring season on Monday, March 19 with Thomas J. Donohue '63C, '85Hon, President and CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The event will take place at 4 p.m. in The Peter J. Tobin College of Business, Room 201-202.
Since assuming this position in 1997, Mr. Donohue has built the Chamber into a lobbying and political powerhouse with expanded influence across the globe. During his tenure, the Chamber has helped secure business victories on Capitol Hill, and in regulatory agencies, politics, courts of law, the court of public opinion, and before governments around the world. In an era of economic and fiscal challenges, Mr. Donohue has led efforts to expand trade and domestic energy production, rebuild America’s infrastructure, combat an avalanche of new regulations, protect intellectual property, revitalize capital markets, and aggressively advocate for legal, tax, education, and entitlement reform.
In addition, he has vigorously challenged attacks on free enterprise, while working to protect the business community’s right to speak and participate in the political and policy affairs of the nation. As part of this bipartisan effort, millions of grassroots business advocates, as well as the Chamber’s federation of state and local chambers and industry associations, mobilize in support of probusiness candidates.
Mr. Donohue established the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform, which advances significant legal reforms in the courts, at the state and federal levels, and in elections for state attorneys general and Supreme Court judges. He has dramatically expanded the activities of the U.S. Chamber Litigation Center, the Chamber’s law firm, which represents the business community’s interests in the courts. He has reinvigorated the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, which houses Hiring Our Heroes, a program that identifies job opportunities for returning veterans and military spouses.
Space is limited and registration is required. RSVP to [email protected].