Recent Council Guests (Partial List)
Fiscal Year 2024
Tarun Chhabra
NSC
Joe Pauloski
U.S. Department of Treasury
Amb. Jovita Neliupšienė
EU Amb. to the United States
Mark Lambert
China House Coordinator and DAS
U.S. Department of State
Hideaki Fujisawa
Minister of Econ., Trade and Industry
Embassy of Japan
Clete Willems
Fmr. Dep. Ass. to President Trump (Curr. Akin)
The White House
Dr. Ajay Kumar
Head of Commerce Wing
Embassy of India
Rick Waters
Fmr. Head- China House (State Dept)
Eurasia Group
Alan Estevez
Under Secretary of Commerce
Bureau of Industry and Security
Michael Laychak
Director
Defense Technology Security Administration
Fiscal Year 2023
Nisha Biswal
Deputy CEO
Development Finance Corporation
Kurt Campbell
NSC Indo-Pacific Coordinator
Dep. Secretary of State Nominee
Steve Lang
DAS- Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy
Amb. Craig Allen
US-China Business Council
Enoh Ebong
USTDA
Lisa Kubiske
State Department (APEP Co-Lead)
Reta Jo Lewis
President and Chair, ExIm Bank
Matt Murray
Senior Official (APEC) at State
Marisa Lago
Under Secretary of Commerce (ITA)
Suja Menon
Minister of Commerce
Embassy of India
Thea Kendler
Assistant Secretary BIS
Andrea Gacki
Director of OFAC
Fiscal Year 2022
Jose Fernandez
Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth
Dan Mullaney
AUSTR For Europe and the Middle East
Amb. Sarah Bianchi
Deputy USTR
Andrew Weiss
VP for Studies
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Terry McCartin
AUSTR for China Affairs
Fiscal Year 2021
Thomas Krueger
Director of Strategic Trade
NSC
Algene Sajery
VP of External Affairs
DFC
Arun Venkataraman
Director of Policy
Department of Commerce
Peter Harrell
Senior Director for International Economics and Competitiveness
NSC
Richard Steffens
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Asia
Global Markets
ITA
Fiscal Year 2020
Matthew Goodman
Senior Vice President
CSIS
Robert Blair
Director of Policy and Strategic Planning
U.S. Department of Commerce
Cordell Hull
Acting Undersecretary
U.S. Department of Commerce
Amb. Craig Allen
US-China Business Council
Amb. Stavros Labrinidis
Ambassador of the European
Union to the United States
Alan Turley
Deputy Assistant Secretary
U.S. Department of Commerce
Adam Boehler
Chief Executive Officer
DFCFiscal Year 2018-2019
Thomas Hardy
Acting Director
US Trade and Development Agency
Chief Banking Officer Stephen Renna
Export-Import Bank of the United States
Assistant Secretary Mitchell Silk
Treasury Department
John Melle
AUSTR for Western Hemisphere
Chief Negotiator, USMCA
Special Representative for Iran and Senior Policy Advisor to the Secretary of State
Brian Hook
U.S. Department of State
Acting OFAC Director Andrea Gacki
Treasury Department
Assistant Secretary Richard Ashooh
Bureau of Industry and Security
Department of Commerce
Amb. Craig Allen US-China Business Council
Daniel Mullaney Assistant U.S. Trade Representative
Fiscal Year 2017-2018
Ian Steff
Ass’t Secretary of Commerce and
Director General, United States and Foreign Commercial Service
Commerce Department
Under Secretary Gil Kaplan
Commerce Department
Acting Under Secretary Manisha Singh State Department
Dr. Andrey Bondarev (Russia), Zhu Hong (China), Dr. Arunish Chawla (India) BRIC Commercial Counselors
Fiscal Year 2015-2016
Under Secretary-designate Adam Szubin Treasury Department
Acting OFAC Director John Smith Treasury Department
Fiscal Year 2014-2015
Amb. Thomas A. Shannon, Jr. State Department
Under Secretary Cathy Novelli
State Department
Chairman Fred Hochberg
Eximbank
Caroline Atkinson
NSC