JAMES REED, principal and founder, has extensive experience with organizational strategy, particularly for professional firms and nonprofit organizations. In 1984 he was certified by the Institute of Management Consultants in New York as a specialist in the management and marketing of professional service firms and of nonprofit organizations. He has decades of experience with government at all levels, from municipal to state to federal to international. Today he heads up Addis & Reed Consulting's Public Affairs and International practice areas, and consults on public policy issues to a range of private sector, nonprofit and public clients.

Early in his career, Jim served on the staff of a Congressional Committee in Washington. In the 1980s he began consulting to senior managers of professional firms and nonprofit organizations, including the Massachusetts Municipal Association in Boston. Since the late 1980s, he has been involved with virtually every piece of asbestos-related legislation at the federal level. He has published extensively on the issue in leading national media, and in 1999-2000 he worked on a team to advise and assist the House Judiciary Committee and its staff on a comprehensive national solution to the asbestos problem. He has testified on the Federal Tort Claims Act before the Senate Judiciary Committee. And he has a long track record in international consulting. In 2004-2005, as a Fulbright Distinguished Fellow, he conducted a research project on "The Rise of China" under the auspices of the U.S. Department of State.

Jim received his B.A. from Ripon College in Wisconsin (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) and his Ph.D. from Harvard, where he was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow. He has held research appointments at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and at Harvard. Jim has served as president of the Boston Chapter of the Association of Management Consultants, and currently sits on a number of boards, including the Massachusetts Chapter of the Fulbright Association. His bio appears in the current volume of Who's Who in America. He can be reached at: reed@addisreed.com