Helle Weeke

Senior Vice President and General Counsel

Helle Weeke has served as DAI’s principal legal advisor since 2011. Responsible for managing all of the firm’s legal affairs, she also serves as company secretary and oversees DAI’s ethics and integrity and global employee ownership programs. She has steered DAI through acquisitions in Europe, Australia, and the United States.

Helle Weeke

Helle previously led DAI’s economic policy team, managing a portfolio of projects that addressed economic governance, labor standards, and trade and investment issues. From 2006 to 2007, she led the Vietnam Competitiveness Initiative in Hanoi, working with provincial and national governments to improve Vietnam’s business enabling environment. From 2002 to 2006, she served as senior trade lawyer to the Support for Trade Acceleration project, also in Hanoi, where she provided technical assistance in implementing the U.S.-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement, which facilitated Vietnam’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO).

Formerly, as an attorney in private practice in Washington, D.C., Helle specialized in resolving international trade and commercial disputes. She has also worked as an international trade consultant, conducting research on trade issues for the WTO, governments, and businesses, as well as for the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe and the Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.