Myriam Ford received her LL.M. in 1997 and her J.D. in 2002 from Columbia Law School, where she was a Fulbright Scholar and a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. She also earned a D.E.S.S. de Commerce International with high honors from Université de Bourgogne in Dijon, France in 1994 and a D.E.S.S. de Propriété Intellectuelle with high honors from Université de Panthéon-Assas in Paris in 1995, graduating first in her class in both courses. Ms. Ford previously practiced at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and Dechert LLP. In addition, she previously served as in-house counsel for two subsidiaries of Total, S.A. in Paris, where she focused on intellectual property issues. Ms. Ford is a native speaker of French.