Elaine D. Kolish, Director, Children's Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative
Ms. Kolish, Director, Children's Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative, is a nationally recognized expert on advertising and consumer-protection issues. Ms. Kolish most recently was a partner at the national law firm Sonnenschein Nath and Rosenthal LLP, where she specialized in counseling national advertisers on advertising and marketing compliance.
Prior to joining Sonnenschein, she spent 25 years at the Federal Trade Commission and held several positions, ultimately serving as head of the Division of Enforcement in the Bureau of Consumer Protection. She has worked extensively on national advertising matters and led the Bureau's regulatory review efforts, as well as a number of other key policy initiatives including the Class Action Fairness Monitoring Project and the Hispanic consumer-protection program.
Ms. Kolish has served as vice chair of the American Bar Association Antitrust Section's Privacy and Information Security Committee, and is an editor of a forthcoming ABA Antitrust Section treatise on consumer protection law.
She is a 1976 graduate of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and graduated magna cum laude from Western New England College School of Law in 1980.
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