Biography
Rebecca Peters is a Director of Public Policy, Semiconductor Policy at Samsung Electronics America. Rebecca leads the public affairs’ workforce, education, research and intellectual property portfolios. Prior to joining Samsung, Peters was Vice President of Member Engagement and Public Policy at Worldwide ERC®. While there she contributed to the organization’s overall strategy as a part of the CEO’s leadership team reporting to its Board. She led the organization’s public policy and membership divisions. She also led workplace immigration public policy strategy for eight years at the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). While at SHRM, she served on the CEO’s Culture Club and was a member of the organization’s senior management team. Before SHRM, Peters was the Director of Government Affairs at the Council for Global Immigration, leading its public policy efforts and the Board’s policy committee. She sits on the Executive Committee of Compete America, the Steering Committee of the Task Force for American Innovation and the Executive Committee of the National Semiconductor Economic Roadmap. She has served as a public policy chair and counsel for Compete America, led SHRM’s employer immigration compliance coalition and served for four years on the Women in Government Relations leadership team as a vice chair and chair of its membership and engagement committee.
She is a frequent speaker on issues of global mobility and high-skilled immigration reform and is viewed as an immigration policy expert both inside and outside the beltway.
Earlier in her career, Peters practiced immigration law at a Washington D.C.- based law firm and served as an attorney and policy analyst at the U.S. Department of Justice’s legacy Immigration and Naturalization Service. She was a Presidential Management fellow and received her J.D. and M.P.A. from Syracuse University’s College of Law and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, respectively.