| What we do: | |
| Services Industries staff assess the global competitive environment for services sectors, address foreign market trade and investment barriers, and promote services export opportunities to support American jobs. | |
| Who we are: Alysha Taylor, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Services, Acting | |
| Senior Advisor to the DAS for Services - Alysha Taylor | |
| Program Analyst - Christine Simmons | |
| Administrative Specialist - Debbie Holl | |
| Office of Supply Chain, Professional, and Business Services (OSCPBS) | |
| Director - Maureen Smith | |
| Administrative Specialist – Cecelia Williams | |
| Supply Chain Team: Provides policy advice and works to improve the competitive movement of U.S. goods and services, focusing on all distribution and transportation modes, particularly air transport services; distribution services (direct marketing, direct selling, franchising, and retailing); cold chain distribution; express delivery; land (highway and rail) transportation; and maritime shipping. Management of three advisory committees ensures that real-time private sector input is considered for trade negotiations and talks. | |
| Bruce Harsh - Team Lead; Single Window | Russell Adise – Maritime and Port Security |
| Eugene Alford - Airline, Express Delivery | Richard Boll – Direct Selling, Franchising, Rail, Trucking |
| John Miller – eCommerce, Retail, Direct Marketing, Cold Chain | |
| Professional & Education Services Team: Promotes and represents the interests of education services; professional services, including legal, accounting, and management consulting; and other business services in trade agreement negotiations and bilaterally. | |
| Barb Rawdon, Team Lead | |
| Office of Finance and Insurance Industries (OFII) | |
| Director - Paul Thanos | |
| Administrative Specialist - Svetlana Pasman | |
| Works to enhance the domestic and international competitiveness of key U.S. financial services industries, focusing on policy, promotion, and analysis work to achieve the goals of expanding US financial services exports, attracting investment to the United States, and facilitating the growth and development of new and inclusive segments of finance. OFII produces the Trade Finance Guide and serves as ITA’s policy advisor on Exim Bank, Overseas Private Investment Corporation, multilateral development banks, and other official finance issues, issues and represents the Department in several trade finance negotiations. OFII manages the Trade Finance Advisory Council. | |
| Financial Services Team: | |
| Michael Corbin – Pensions, Asset Mgmt, Insurance | Scott Schmith – Securities, Banking, Non-Bank |
| Israly Echegaray – Insurance | |
| Vincent Tran – Venture Capital, Private Equity, FinTech, Impact Investing | |
| Trade and Project Finance Team: | |
| Michael Fuchs – Team Lead; OPIC liaison | Denise Carpenter – Devel. Finance, Multilateral Aid |
| Erik Lenz – Official Export Credits, EXIM Bank liaison | Ericka Ukrow – Access to Capital, Trade Finance Education |
| Yuki Fujiyama – Trade Finance Education & Outreach | |
| Office of Digital Services Industries (ODSI) | |
| Director - Krysten Jenci | |
| Program Analyst - Christine (Tina) Agoo | |
| Data Flows and Privacy Team: Promotes privacy policy frameworks to facilitate the free flow of data across borders to support international trade. The team administers the EU and Swiss Privacy Shield Frameworks, maintains the EU and Swiss Safe Harbor Lists, and is leading efforts to implement APEC Cross Border Privacy Rules System. The team also works to represent industry interests on privacy policy issues including at the OECD. | |
| Shannon Coe – Team Lead | Nasreen Djouini – Privacy Shield, OECD, Data Flows Research, Middle East and North Africa |
| David Ritchie – Privacy Shield, Safe Harbor, EU, Switzerland | Andrew Flavin – APEC, Software, ASEAN, Japan, South America |
| Caitlin Fennessy – Privacy Shield, EU General Data Protection Regulation, EU | |
| Michelle Sylvester-Jose – Privacy Shield, APEC, UNCTAD, Central America, Caribbean, Brazil | Andres Lahiguera – Privacy Shield, UK, South and Central Asia, Video Game policy for GME Team |
| Michael Rose – APEC, Asia, G7, G20, Russia, Pacific non-ASEAN | Andrew Steele – Privacy Shield, EU Digital Single Market, Digital Attaché program, Non-EU Europe |
| Grace Harter – Privacy Shield, EU Digital Single Market, Smart Cities/Smart Cars, Sub-Saharan Africa | |
| Digital and Internet Services Team: Addresses policy and commercial issues related to a wide range of evolving ICT (information and communications technology) services - including cybersecurity, cloud computing, software and applications, advanced communications services, and media and entertainment – as well as serves as ITA lead on telecommunications and e-commerce negotiations. | |
| Paulette Hernandez – Team Lead, Trade Negotiations | Jorge Diaz Pardo – Cybersecurity, Cloud Computing |
| Andrea DaSilva – Media and Entertainment | Hilary Sadler – Software, Asia |
| Resources | |
| Top Market Reports | |
| Media and Entertainment | Fintech |
| Cold Chain | Cloud Computing |
| Education | Franchising |
| Federal Advisory Committees | |
| ITAC 5: Distribution Services, DFOs - Richard Boll and John Miller | |
| ITAC 8: Information and Communications Technologies, Services, and Electronic Commerce, DFO - Hilary Sadler | |
| ITAC 10: Services and Finance Industries, DFOs - Richard Boll and John Miller | |
| Advisory Committee on Supply Chain Competitiveness, DFOs - Richard Boll and John Miller | |
| Trade Finance Advisory Council, DFO - Ericka Ukrow | |
| Others Resources | |
| Trade Finance Guide for Exporters | |
| Privacy Shield | |
| Improving American Competitiveness: Best Practices by U.S. Port Communities | |
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