Emily DeRocco, Frmr Asst Sec of Labor

Emily DeRocco runs a Washington, D.C.-based strategic consulting firm, focused on policies and practice in education reform, workforce and economic development. From January 2008 through March 2012, she served as president of The Manufacturing Institute and senior vice president of the National Association of Manufacturers, where she designed and implemented a national agenda to foster a new generation of manufacturing workers for the 21st century. DeRocco joined NAM after serving on the U.S. Department of Labor’s senior management team for 7 years under the Bush administration. DeRocco also has over 10 years of private sector experience in managing a national non-profit organization and prior federal government experience at the Departments of Energy and Interior, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the Interstate Commerce Commission. She is a graduate and “Distinguished Alumna” of The Pennsylvania State University and received her Juris Doctorate from the Georgetown Law Center.