Judith P. Wilkenfeld, Director, International Programs

As director of International Programs at the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, Judith Wilkenfeld is responsible for building U.S. support for the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, the multi-lateral treaty on global tobacco prevention that the countries that comprise the World Health Organization have negotiated and drafted. The treaty aims to establish international tobacco-control standards. She collaborates with other nongovernmental organizations to advance the treaty and to educate the American public as to the treaty’s significance. She served for two years as vice-chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee on tobacco product regulation for the World Health Organization.

Prior to joining the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids in 2000, Ms. Wilkenfeld served as special advisor for Tobacco Policy in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Office of the Commissioner from 1994 to 1999. She was assistant director of the Division of Advertising Practices in the U.S. Federal Trade Commission from 1980 to 1994. In both these positions, she formulated and initiated major policies regarding the tobacco industry’s marketing and advertising practices, low tar policy, health warnings for cigarettes and smokeless tobacco, and the assertion of jurisdiction and the regulation of tobacco products as drug-delivery devices by the FDA.

Ms. Wilkenfeld has been the lead attorney in several successful litigations against tobacco companies’ deceptive advertising and marketing practices. She currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Public Policy and Marketing, and was a member of the editorial board for the Food and Drug Law Journal from 1991 to 1995.