Djaghe LLC, an international consulting firm based in Washington, DC
Areas of practice include International Trade, Digital Technology, and the Performing Arts
Djaghe LLC, an international consulting firm based in Washington, DC
Areas of practice include International Trade, Digital Technology, and the Performing Arts
Djaghe LLC, an international consulting firm based in Washington, DC
Areas of practice include International Trade, Digital Technology, and the Performing Arts
Djaghe LLC, an international consulting firm based in Washington, DC
Areas of practice include International Trade, Digital Technology, and the Performing Arts
Djaghe LLC, an international consulting firm based in Washington, DC
Areas of practice include International Trade, Digital Technology, and the Performing Arts
Our International Trade practice provides analysis, advice, and problem-solving on a wide range of public procurement and international trade issues. Its blog, Perspectives on Trade, provides regular analysis and commentary on timely topics.
The Trump administration has begun a “revolutionary overhaul” of US federal procurement regulations in response to an executive order, Restoring Common Sense to Federal Procurement, issued on April 15, 2025. The order directs the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council (FAR Council) to amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) within 180 days of the order (by mid-October). The aim of the overhaul is..
A comprehensive study. The forces that integrated government procurement into the international trading system and the pressures that protect domestic sources. The prospects and challenges facing global procurement. By our Principal for International Trade.
Our Digital Technology practice helps prepare rising leaders to deal with all aspects of the field, including issues of communications and policy.
We learned the basics of computing from surprising places. We learned it from factories. We learned it from offices. We learned it from rows and rows of workers computing answers with no tool more sophisticated than paper and pencil. The story of fundamental themes of the digital age and the definitive treatment of the Mathematical Tables Project.
All about the Crowd. How to put questions to the Crowd. How to listen to answers from the Crowd. How to get the job done. By our Principal for Digital Technology.
Art crosses borders. It links peoples and nations. It lightens our neighborhoods. It touches our hearts. Djaghe has expertise in the international arts, in how they are developed, in how they are managed, and in how they are produced. It also produces shows through the HWMS Audio Theatre.
The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act by Isaac Butler (Bloomsbury, 2022) It is one thing to ask how an acting philosophy or paradigm has affected the aesthetics of an art form such as theatre or film. It is something entirely different question to ask how that philosophy has shaped artistic organizations. Yet, organizations hold and transmit ideas, so such..
“The Closest I’ve Come to Death?” A query that comes with a story of impatience, indiscretion or poor judgement. For Alec Effson, it is a question that repeatedly asks why she is on a battlefield, what she expects to gain from the experience and who she will be when she returns to a life that is safely behind the front..
David Alan Grier is the Digital Technology and Communications Principal at Djaghe LLC. He has over 35 years of experience working in private industry, universities, and professional societies.
In publications, he was the editor-in-chief of two magazines published by the Computer Society of the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). He served as Director of its magazine group, Publisher for the Computer Society, and a member of the IEEE Press Committee. He has been a columnist or contributing editor for many periodicals, including Computer Magazine, Consumer Electronics Magazine, IEEE Annals, and The Communications of the Chinese Computing Federation (published in Mandarin). He has authored five books, including When Computers Were Human (Princeton University Press, 2005), and produced numerous podcasts, such as “The Known World,” “The Errant Hashtag,” and “The CrowdPod.” Full list of his publications.
In Academe, he was an associate professor at the George Washington University, where he served as Assistant Dean of Engineering, Associate Dean of International Affairs, and Director of the Interdisciplinary Honors Program. He holds a PhD in Mathematical Statistics from the University of Washington and an undergraduate degree in Mathematics from Middlebury College.
In Industry, he began his career as a software engineer for Burroughs Computer Corporation. He has worked as a consultant to technology firms, helped to organize the Crowdsortium Trade Association, and served as Director of Global Policy for the IEEE. He was also the President of the Computer Society.
In the Performing Arts, he served on the Board of Trustees of the Shakespeare Theatre (Washington, DC) and has consulted with other performing arts organizations on issues of technology and management. He has also authored and produced audio dramas, including A Bustle, A Corset, & The London Necropolis Express and Add Subtract Unite Divide.
Jean Heilman Grier is the International Trade Principal at Djaghe LLC. She has over 35 years of experience in international trade as a trade negotiator, lawyer, adviser, and consultant.
At Djaghe LLC, she advises businesses, organizations, and governments on a wide variety of international procurement and trade issues. Her expertise includes global procurement, trade policy, U.S. trade laws, international trade agreements, and trade negotiations. She is the author of The International Procurement System: Liberalization & Protectionism (Dalston Press, 2022) and numerous other publications on international procurement and other trade topics. Since 2013, she has written the blog, Perspectives on Trade.
At the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, she served as Senior Procurement Negotiator. In that role, she led the development of trade policy related to public procurement and negotiations for the United States on the World Trade Organization’s Government Procurement Agreement and procurement chapters in numerous free trade agreements across the globe, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
At the U.S. Department of Commerce, she served as Senior Counsel for Trade Agreements. In that position, she engaged in a broad range of international trade issues, including the negotiations of the North American Free Trade Agreement and numerous bilateral agreements with Japan. She also participated in anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations, as well as investigations conducted under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962.
Prior to entering the U.S. government, she was an Assistant Attorney General with the State of Minnesota. In that Office, she served as Chief of the Public Utilities Division, representing the State in electric, gas, and telecommunications rate cases, Chief of the Consumer Protection Division, litigating consumer fraud cases, and as the first attorney for the Minnesota Environmental Quality Board.
She received law degrees from the University of Minnesota (J.D.) and the University of Washington (LL.M in Asian Law) and an undergraduate degree in Political Science from South Dakota State University. As a Fulbright Scholar at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan, she conducted research in Japanese administrative law. She is a member of the District of Columbia Bar.