Nigel Cory

Director

ncory@crowell.com

Nigel Cory is a director with Crowell Global Advisors focusing on cross-border data flows, data governance, intellectual property, and how they each relate to digital trade and the broader digital economy. Nigel has provided in-person testimony and written submissions and has published reports and op-eds relating to these issues in the United States, the European Union, Australia, China, India, and New Zealand, among other countries and regions, and he has completed research projects for international bodies such as the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation and the World Trade Organization. Nigel is a member of the United Kingdom’s International Data Transfer Expert Council and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)’s Data Free Flow with Trust Expert Community.

He previously covered trade and digital policy at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. Nigel also previously worked as a researcher in the Southeast Asia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Prior to that, he worked for eight years in Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, which included positions working on G20 global economic and trade issues and the Doha Development Round. Cory also had diplomatic postings in Malaysia, where he worked on bilateral and regional trade, economic, and security issues, and in Afghanistan, where he was the deputy director of a joint U.S.-Australia provincial reconstruction team. Nigel holds a master’s degree in public policy from Georgetown University and a bachelor’s degree in international business and commerce from Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia.

Government Experience

Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Deputy Director, U.S.-Australian Provincial Reconstruction Team, 2012 – 2013

Foreign Policy Advisor to the Foreign Minister, Foreign Minister’s Office, 2011

Executive Officer, G20 Section, International Economy Branch, 2011 – 2012

Third/Second Secretary in Political/Economic Section, Australian Embassy in Malaysia, 2008 – 2011

Foreign Service Diplomatic and Leadership Development Program, 2006 – 2008

Professional Experience

Associate Director, Trade Policy, The Informational Technology and Innovation Foundation, 2015 – 2024

Researcher, Sumitro Chair for Southeast Asian Studies and the Pacific Partners Initiative, 2014 – 2024 

Education

Georgetown University, MA

Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia BA

Affiliations

Non-Resident Fellow, National Bureau of Asian Research, 2023 – Present