D. Jeffrey Hirschberg

Jeff Hirschberg is Vice Chairman of The Northeast Maglev, LLC (TNEM).  Mr. Hirschberg’s career includes forty-eight years of senior executive management, strategic advice, crisis management, government affairs and parallel proceedings, including representing organizations and individuals before the Administration, as well as Congressional oversight committees.  He has extensive experience in internal control, strategic risk management, and corporate governance. 

From 1987-1999, Mr. Hirschberg held a number of positions at Ernst & Young, including Vice Chairman for Government Affairs and Public Policy and legal partner.  He also worked as associate general counsel and special counsel in the office of the chairman.

While at Ernst & Young, Mr. Hirschberg founded and managed the firm’s National Government Relations Department and expanded focus into the international arena and ultimately established an international public policy practice.  He managed aspects of international economic development activities, including spending a portion of two and a half years in the People’s Republic of China facilitating the negotiations of market access proposals for inclusion in the U.S. – China bilateral WTO agreement.  He also worked on U.S. – Russia economic development issues.  Mr. Hirschberg helped manage the firm’s position on securities litigation.  He developed the strategy that successfully defeated Proposition 211 ballot initiative in California.  He also helped form the Foreign Investment Advisory Council (FAIC) for Ukraine with former President Kuchma and the FAIC for Russia with former President Yeltzin.

 Prior to Ernst & Young, Mr. Hirschberg worked at the Departmen of Justice in a number of positions, including senior trial attorney in the fraud section (foreign payments), deputy chief of special litigation section criminal division (national security) and the special attorney to the deputy attorney general.

 Since 1988, Mr. Hirschberg sits on a number of board of directors or board of trustees, including Freedom House (former chairman and current chairman emeritus), U.S. Russia Center for Entrepreneurship, the U.S. – Russia Investment Fund (appointed by Former President Bill Clinton), Broadcasting Board of Governors of the United States which oversee all non-military US – international broadcasting (appointed by Former President G. Bush) and former director of the Center for Democracy.  Mr. Hirschberg has dedicated over thirty-five years of his life working with NGO’s and organizations that promote Democratic values worldwide.

 Mr. Hirschberg has degrees from the University of Wisconsin – Madison, Marquette University Law School and is a member of several Bar Associations.