<p><img alt="" src="/images/people/Brigitte_Dias-Ferreira.jpg" style="float:left; height:156px; width:186px" />Brigitte Dias-Ferreira is Counsel, International Affairs for Deere & Company (John Deere) in the Washington D.C. office. She joined Deere Public Affairs Worldwide in July 2012. In her role at Deere, Brigitte represents the company on a wide variety of policy topics in Russia, the CIS countries, Europe, North Africa and the Middle-East, and Latin America.</p><p>Before joining Deere, Brigitte was Director and Corporate Counsel at Asurion LLC., a telecom insurance company, and prior to this Senior Counsel International at MicroStrategy, Inc, a business intelligence software company. Brigitte has also worked for the Dorsey & Whitney law firm in Washington, DC. In Italy, she worked as in-house counsel for a pharmaceutical company and as a junior associate at a law firm. In her previous roles, she focused on cross-border legal compliance, policy and regulatory issues, data privacy laws, legal transactional issues, negotiating government contracts, and anti-corruption measures.</p><p>Brigitte earned her Juris Doctor from the <em>Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis</em> in France and holds post-graduate Masters of Laws degrees from both the <em>Université de Montpellier</em> in France and the George Washington University Law School. Brigitte is fluent in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian. </p><p>Deere & Company (NYSE: DE) is a world leader in providing advanced products and services and is committed to the success of customers whose work is linked to the land – those who cultivate, harvest, transform, enrich and build upon the land to meet the world's dramatically increasing need for food, fuel, shelter and infrastructure. Since 1837, John Deere has delivered innovative products of superior quality built on a tradition of integrity. For more information, visit John Deere at its worldwide website at <a href="http://www.johndeere.com">JohnDeere.com</a>.</p>