The House Foreign Affairs Committee's Western Hemisphere Subcommittee has lost a professional staff member to Ford Motor Co.'s government affairs shop.
Ramon Zertuche started at the subcommittee in 2013 in his first job on the Hill and now serves as manager of international government affairs for the Americas at Ford. He has spent most of his career working at several organizations and agencies, including the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Inc., Inter-American Economic Council, Organization of American States and the Departments of Commerce and the Treasury.
Zertuche has not filed lobbying papers, but his new job takes him to a company that regularly lobbies on issues affecting the auto industry, from manufacturing to tax reform and highway funding. LegiStorm has tracked 65 former congressional staffers so far who have lobbied on Ford's behalf in the last 15 years.
Zertuche has a 2001 undergraduate degree in government, Latin American and Caribbean studies from Dartmouth College and a 2012 master's in international relations and international economics from Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.
