Anne Elizabeth Basham

Anne Elizabeth Basham, CEO of Ascend Consulting DC, is a government affairs and grant acquisition executive, coalition-builder, and global policy strategist. She is also the founder of the Interparliamentary Taskforce on Human Trafficking, uniting lawmakers from over thirty countries. She has spoken at the C20 Global Summit, Congress, the United Nations, and legislatures throughout the world and been named a top lobbyist by the National Institute for Lobbying and Ethics. In her time as the senior advisor at the US Department of Justice’s Office for Victims of Crime, she helped allocate more than $2 billion in federal funding. She began her career in the US Senate and holds a Master’s degree from the University of Virginia. Anne calls the Washington, DC, area home.