Dava Casoni joined ICT in 2011, after a successful career as an attorney with senior roles at international law firms including Pillsbury (founded in 1868) and Milbank LLP (founded 1866), before founding her own boutique firm, Casoni Law, in 2009. She received her JD and LLM in General and International Law from Cornell Law School in 1996 and has substantial experience in negotiating and drafting complex transactions, financing, IP protection, and compliance matters, particularly in government and industry sponsored university research and export controls.
Casoni was an early and active member of the Association of University Export Control Officers, aiding in its growth from under 20 members to its current roster of over 400 across 250 institutions nationwide. In 2012, she was appointed by the Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs as a member of the Defense Trade Advisory Group (“DTAG”) and has served as an appointed member for twelve years. The DTAG is an advisory committee whose mission is to provide the Department of State’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs with a formal channel for regular consultation and coordination with the U.S. private sector defense trade specialists.
Alongside her legal role at ICT, Dava Casoni also leads (with Navy Captain and TV writer Ric Arthur) the Force Writers Room, which brings multi-disciplinary expertise, Hollywood creativity and proven “TV writers room” techniques to strategically analyze and visualize the future, enabling warfighters to examine “unknowns” within a highly imaginative narrative framework.
Dava Casoni was also named 2024 Public Counsel of the Year by the American Media and Entertainment Counsel (AMEC), an 18-year-old organization with more than 14,000 in-house counsel and business executives from studios, networks, Guilds, talent agencies and major media and entertainment companies.