Michael Schumpp serves as Meat Institute's Senior Director of International Affairs and associate director of international programs for the Leather and Hide Council of America. He most recently served as director of public affairs and member communications for Meat Institute. Schumpp is a member of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Technical Advisory Committee for Trade in Animals and Animal Products, serves on the Steering Committee for Farmers for Free Trade, and is the Treasurer of the Board of Directors for the Agriculture Trade Education Council.

Schumpp joined the Institute in March 2014 as coordinator of legislative and public affairs. Previously, he worked in a public affairs firm in Washington, DC and at Winning Strategies Public Relations in Newark, N.J. Schumpp graduated Phi Beta Kappa from George Washington University with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and subsequently earned a master’s degree in Political Management, also at GW.