A co-founder of the Common Sense Party, Julie Meier Wright is the retired chief executive of the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation and formerly California’s first Secretary of Trade & Commerce and a member of Governor Pete Wilson’s Cabinet.
She is a Senior Fellow of the US Council on Competitiveness and the California Council on Science & Technology, serves on the boards of the Jacobs School of Engineering and Calit2 at the University of California San Diego and is on the Board of Expert Advisors for the California Emerging Technology Fund. She consults on public affairs, advocacy and strategic planning both in California and in Japan, and was a co-founder of the California Economic Summit.