Mr. McKinney has been active in the fields of trade and investment law and policy over the past six years.

After college and two successful stints with consulting firms, he attended the Washington College of Law at American University from 2007-2010, where he served as President of WCL's International Trade and Investment Law Society and won the Best Orator award for the North American round of the European Law Student Association's 2010 WTO Moot Court competition. He was also a staff member of the American Bar Association's Administrative Law Review.

Mr. McKinney has completed significant internships at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (with the Office of Services and Investment and later the Office of the General Counsel) and at the U.S. Department of Commerce (Office of the Chief Counsel for International Commerce). As an undergraduate at the University of Miami, he was the inaugural recipient of the Robert M. Levine Award for Excellence in Latin American Studies for his research on Brazil's investment regime.

He now works as an Associate at TradeWins LLC, a trade law and policy consultancy based in Washington, DC, and is admitted to practice law in Florida.