Contact: Amanda H. Beck
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 9, 2021
HR Policy Association Announces New
Vice President of Government Relations, Chatrane Birbal
Birbal Brings Nearly Two Decades of Experience and Expertise in Workplace Policy
Chatrane Birbal
Washington, DC—HR Policy Association, representing the chief human resource officers of more than 390 of the largest private sector employers in the United States, is pleased to announce that Chatrane Birbal has joined the Association as vice president of government relations.
HR Policy Association members are the chief human resource executives of the largest corporations doing business in the United States and globally. Collectively, member companies employ more than ten million employees in the United States, nearly nine percent of the private sector workforce, and 20 million employees worldwide.
HR Policy Association stands apart from other HR groups because it focuses primarily on the concerns of the most senior HR executive in Fortune 500 companies, and it is these chief human resource officers who shape and prioritize the Association's activities and drive its agenda. HR Policy Association has been operating for more than four decades, coming together in 1968 to address the tumultuous labor and civil rights issues that were sweeping the workplace at that time. It has remained the leading CHRO public policy organization ever since, continuing to tackle new complex problems and emerging issues such as post-COVID return to work policies and health care reform affecting senior human resource executives.
Based in the Association’s Arlington, Va. office, Ms. Birbal is responsible for leading HR Policy Association’s government relations strategy, building relationships with individuals in the U.S. Congress, Administration and regulatory agencies that oversee matters related to large employers and their workforces, including benefits, diversity and inclusion, labor, safety, immigration, and compensation policy. She will report to Association president and CEO Tim Bartl.
“Chatrane is an experienced government affairs professional who possesses the right relationships and understanding of the issues that matter most to HR Policy Association members. We are thrilled to welcome her to the team,” said Mr. Bartl.
Ms. Birbal brings nearly 20 years of high-level experience working in government affairs at the federal level. Most recently, she was the vice president, public policy for the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM). In this role, she was directly engaged in many of the policy issues that impact the workplace and represented SHRM’s membership of over 300,000 individual HR and business executive members.
Prior to SHRM, Ms. Birbal was the director of government relations at the Council on Foundations, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit membership association of 2,000 grant making foundations and corporations, with assets totaling more than $282 billion. Ms. Birbal was also a federal legislative lobbyist at the American Psychiatric Association, a medical specialty society with over 38,000 U.S. and international member physicians who work together to ensure humane care and effective treatment for all persons with mental disorders, including mental retardation and substance-related disorders.
Ms. Birbal serves as a director-at-large on George Mason University’s Alumni Board. She also serves on the board of directors of Women in Government Relations the premier, non-partisan professional society dedicated to advancing and empowering women’s leadership in government relations and is a member of the Tax Coalition, which encourages the professional development of women in federal tax policy.
Ms. Birbal obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the State University at Buffalo in Buffalo, N.Y. and received her graduate degree of public administration and public policy from George Mason University in Fairfax, Va.
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HR Policy Association is the lead organization representing chief human resource officers of major employers. The Association consists of more than 390 of the largest corporations doing business in the United States and globally, and these employers are represented in the organization by their most senior human resource executive. Collectively, their companies employ more than ten million employees in the United States, nearly nine percent of the private sector workforce, and 20 million employees worldwide. They have a combined market capitalization of more than $7.5 trillion. These senior corporate officers participate in the Association because of their commitment to improving the direction of human resource policy. Their objective is to use the combined power of the membership to act as a positive influence
to better public policy, the HR marketplace, and the human resource profession. For more information visit www.chro.org.
