Monica Hardy Whaley
President, National Center for APEC 
U.S. ABAC Alternate Member
Monica Hardy Whaley has been with the National Center for APEC (NCAPEC) since the Center’s 
founding after the first-ever APEC Leaders Meeting that took place in Seattle in 1993. Monica is 
responsible for management of NCAPEC’s policy and administrative staff, membership, fundraising and 
fiscal management, and serves as the public spokesperson and representative of the National Center for APEC. 
NCAPEC is the home of the APEC 2023 USA Private Sector Host Committee, the U.S. secretariat for 
the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (US-PECC), the secretariat for the U.S. appointees to the 
APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC), and Pacific Summit Resources, LLC, which partners with 
APEC Host economies to produce the annual APEC CEO Summit programs. NCAPEC was also the lead coordinator for the APEC 
2011 USA CEO Summit Host Committee. 
Prior to assuming her responsibilities at the National Center for APEC, Monica served in various roles at the Washington Council on International Trade (WCIT), the premier trade policy organization in the most trade-dependent U.S. state. WCIT served as the coordinating organization for the U.S. hosting of the 1993 APEC meetings, which were the first APEC gatherings convened at the 
Leaders level. 
Monica holds bachelor’s degrees in Political Science and French from the University of Santa Clara and studied in Paris at the Institut 
d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Pô). She is an Alternate Member of the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) for the United States, Chair of the US-APEC Business Coalition, a member of the U.S. Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (US-PECC) as well as being a 
member of the Pacific Council on International Policy. 
She is married with two adult sons and lives in Seattle.