Fred M. Lowenfels is General Counsel, Executive Vice-President and a Director of Transammonia, Inc., a privately held commodities trading firm headquartered in New York City with operations in 33 cities around the world. The firm specializes in fertilizers, ammonia, petrochemicals, liquefied petroleum gases, petroleum coke and coal. Mr. Lowenfels has worked at Transammonia since 1974. Prior thereto, he was an associate at the law firm Wolf, Haldenstein, Adler, Freeman & Herz in New York. Mr. Lowenfels is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, and studied Common Market law in Brussels, Belgium as a Fulbright Scholar.
Fred is a Trustee and former Chairman of the Board of The Jewish Home & Hospital Lifecare System. He is also a former Director of Theodore Gordon Flyfishers.
He has served as an arbitrator on numerous panels at the International Centre for Dispute Resolution.