Item Number:    6b_motion 
Meeting Date:   May 27, 2014 

MOTION 
OF THE PORT OF SEATTLE COMMISSION 
APPOINTING A MEMBER OF THE COMMISSION
ETHICS BOARD FOR 2014-2017 
PROPOSED MAY 27, 2014 

TEXT OF THE MOTION 
The Commission, in accordance with Resolution No. 3681, the Port of Seattle Code of Ethics for
Port Commissioners, hereby appoints Professor Anita Ramasastry to serve a three-year term as a
member on the Commission Ethics Board effective June 4, 2014, and ending June 3, 2017.

STATEMENT IN SUPPORT OF THE MOTION 
The Port of Seattle has established a strong and comprehensive ethics program for employees
and Port Commissioners to foster high ethical standards, strengthen public trust and confidence
in the Port of Seattle, and promote good governance. To further these goals, the Port of Seattle
Commission adopted Resolution No. 3681, a revised Code of Ethics for Port Commissioners, on
May 14, 2013. 
The Code of Ethics for Port Commissioners provides for the appointment by majority vote of an
Ethics Board composed of three members "to ensure proper and consistent implementation" of
the Code.  The Board serves as the formal mechanism to consider all complaints against Port
Commissioners and acts as an advisory body to provide guidance on ethical matters to the Port
Commission or individual Commissioners upon request. 
Anita Ramasastry is a Professor of Law at the University of Washington School of Law and
Director of the Graduate Program in Sustainable International Development. She is an expert in
the fields of business and human rights, anti-corruption, and commercial law and development.
Professor Ramasastry's currentresearch focuses on the accountability of economic actors in 
conflict and weak-governance zones. 
In 2002, Professor Ramasastry received the University of Washington Distinguished Teaching
Award and on three other occasions was selected by students as the Philip A. Trautman Professor 
of the Year.  She has degrees from Harvard and the University of Sydney. Her previous
appointments include as a visiting professor and Atlantic Fellow in Public Policy at the Centre
for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary Westfield College and as a staff attorney at the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York.