Vice President, Public Policy

Bob Kramer joined the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) in May of 2001 as vice president for global public policy. He is responsible for driving the association’s worldwide public policy, legislative and regulatory efforts and initiatives on behalf of CompTIA’s members. This includes overseeing CompTIA’s public policy offices in Washington, D.C.; Brussels, Belgium; and Hong Kong, China.

Mr. Kramer is a member of the USTR-Commerce Department sponsored Industry Trade Advisory Committee for Services. He also is a member of the Board of the European Commission sponsored e-Skills Industry Leadership Board.

Prior to CompTIA, Mr. Kramer managed International Government Relations at Bank of America, representing the bank on a variety of international, banking, trade and technology issues for eight years. He served as chairman of the Coalition of Service Industries' Electronic Commerce Working Group; on the Department of Commerce’s Services and Electronic Commerce Trade Advisory Committees; and as a U.S. representative on the e-Commerce Working Group for the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas. In addition, Mr. Kramer was a founding member of the transatlantic Financial Leaders Group, which played a key role in successfully completing the 1997 WTO Financial Services Agreement.

Mr. Kramer received a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in Foreign Service from Georgetown University, as well as a master’s degree in medieval history from The Catholic University of America.