Dawn Yamane Hewett is a partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, a global litigation firm. She represents clients in international arbitrations and government and internal investigations. She was appointed to the newly established Court of Arbitration for the Abu Dhabi International Arbitration Centre (arbitrateAD). The independent Court has supervisory authority over international arbitrations administered by arbitrateAD, scrutinizes arbitral awards before they are issued to the parties, resolves challenges to arbitrators, and can hear certain petitions such as requests for consolidation and joinder. She is the President of the Asian Pacific American Bar Association Dawn served in the Obama Administration as the Deputy General Counsel for Strategic Initiatives for the U.S. Department of Commerce. At Commerce, she handled a broad range of legal issues including anticorruption, commercial rule of law, appellate litigation, trade and investment, export controls, digital economy, responsible business conduct, cybersecurity, and privacy. Before entering government, Dawn was an attorney at Arnold & Porter LLP where she was member of the firm's international arbitration, litigation, global anticorruption, and white collar practice groups and on the firm’s Pro Bono Immigration Committee. Dawn is a 2002 Mitchell Scholar. She received an M.Phil in Ethnic and Racial Studies from Trinity. While studying in Ireland Dawn interned with the human rights organization Front Line Defenders, helping to organize a conference at Dublin Castle attended by delegates from 77 countries. Following her studies in Ireland, Dawn attended the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and Yale Law School and worked on post-conflict issues in Sierra Leone, the D.R.C. and Cambodia. Dawn obtained her undergraduate degree from the University of Washington in Seattle.