Trevor Gunn

Trevor Gunn is vice president, international relations for Medtronic, the world's largest medical technology company.

Trevor was formerly long-time director of the Commerce Department's Business Information Service for the Newly Independent States (BISNIS) the clearinghouse for U.S. government information for doing business in the former Soviet Union. Hs has served continuously for the past 26 years, and currently serves as adjunct professor at CERES/School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. He is a Vicennial Silver Medalist.

He received his BA from the University of San Francisco. He received his PhD in international relations from the London School of Economics in 1992.

He has worked with the Chamber of Commerce of Southern Sweden, Dover Elevator Corporation (now ThyssenKrupp of Germany), International Executive Service Corps, and on the staffs of the former San Francisco Mayor and two U.S. Senators from California. He is the founder and chairman of the USA Healthcare Alliance (USAHA). He sits on the U.S. State Department's Stakeholder Advisory Board on the OECD Guidelines on Corporate Social Responsibility; is an official advisor to the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) in the "Industry Trade Advisory" system of the US Government. Gunn also chairs the International Affairs Committee at Medtech Europe, Europe's largest medical technology trade association.