Michael Cofield is a Senior Attorney-Advisor with the Commercial Law Development Program (CLDP) in the Office of the General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Commerce, where he works on the Eastern Europe & Central Asia team on Insolvency, Legal Professional Development, Corporate Governance, Digital Infrastructure, and Customs and Transport Programs in Armenia, Central Asia, and Georgia. Prior to joining CLDP, Mr. Cofield worked as a Trade Enforcement Analyst at the Interagency Trade Enforcement Center (ITEC), analyzing Russian and Russian-language law, policy, and practice in support of interagency trade enforcement and negotiation efforts on a variety of Russia- and regionally-focused trade issues.  Prior to ITEC, Mr. Cofield worked on a number of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act cases arising in Russian speaking countries.  Before that, Mr. Cofield worked as an associate at Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold, where he concentrated primarily on surety law and reinsurance matters.