Frank Sanchez, Special Advisor

Frank Sanchez is a partner with CM Partners (CMP), where he works with corporations and governments worldwide managing complex transactions, labor-management negotiations, litigation settlement, facilitation and training.

Among his public-sector engagements, Mr. Sanchez headed a team in Medellín, Colombia for a “Teaching Tolerance” program, an initiative designed to break the cycle of violence plaguing the country. He also advised the president of Ecuador in negotiations to settle the decades-old border dispute with Peru.

Early in his career, Mr. Sanchez practiced corporate and administrative law in Miami, Florida, and later served in the administration of former Florida Governor Bob Graham as the first director of the state’s Caribbean Basin Initiative Program.

In 1999, he became a Special Assistant to the President of the United States working in the Office of the Special Envoy for the Americas. In the White House he worked with the National Security Council, the State Department and the U.S. Trade Representative on Western Hemisphere economic integration and the promotion of democracy. President Clinton later appointed Mr. Sanchez as U.S. Assistant Secretary of Transportation where he developed aviation policy and oversaw international negotiations.

He is a contributing author to Negociación 2000, a collection of essays on negotiation published by McGraw-Hill. He has also taught negotiation at the Program of Instruction for Lawyers at Harvard Law School.

A Tampa native, Mr. Sanchez attended the University of Florida, received his undergraduate and law degrees from Florida State University and holds a master’s degree in public administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. In 2003, Mr. Sanchez ran for Mayor of Tampa making it to the runoff election. He remains very active in the Tampa Bay community and chairs the Patel Foundation for Global Understanding.