David B. Winn is a Vice President of The Center for American and International Law (formerly the Southwestern Legal Foundation) in Dallas, Texas, and Director of its Institute for Energy Law, Institute for Transnational Arbitration and Institute for Law and Technology.  A trial attorney in Dallas for over 20 years before joining the Center in 1999, Mr. Winn has long been active in international legal education and citizen diplomacy. He has chaired or organized international conferences at various venues in the United States, the Soviet Union, Russia, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, Latvia, China, Mexico and Argentina.  He is currently Chairman of the Board of the Friends of the Katy Trail and is a past director of the American Center for International Leadership, the World Affairs Council of Greater Dallas, and the Dallas Committee for International Visitors (Chair, 2000).  He is a past Fellow of the Amundsen Institute for US-Mexico Studies and Barrister in the Patrick E. Higginbotham American Inn of Court. He received his undergraduate degree in history in 1975 at SMU and his law degree in 1978 at the University of Texas School of Law.