Speaker Biographies

Kofi Asumadu Addo

Director of Guarantees and Specialized Finance, Afreximbank

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Rita Adiani

President, Titan Mining Corporation

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Hon. Spencer Bachus

Member, Board of Directors, EXIM, Former Congressman

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Romina Bandura

Senior Fellow with the Project on Prosperity and Development, CSIS

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Warren Bares

President, J. Maxime Roy, Inc.

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Rebecca L. Bellinger

Executive Director, Center for Global Business, University of Maryland

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Jennifer Black

Managing Director, International Trade, Pennsylvania Department of Community & Economic Development

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Hon. Doug Burgum

Secretary, U.S. Department of the Interior

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James G. Burrows Jr.

Acting First Vice President and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, EXIM

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Lisa Coppé

Senior Country Manager, Sub-Saharan Africa, USTDA

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Adam Cortese

Chief Executive Officer, Sun Africa & UGT Renewables

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James C. Cruse

Acting President and Chairman of the Board of Directors, EXIM

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Michio Daito

President, Japan Organization for Metals and Energy Security

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Hon. Warren Davidson

U.S. Congressman, 8th District of Ohio, Chairman, House Financial Services Subcommittee on National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions

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Ambassador Paula J. Dobriansky

Former Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs and former Chair, EXIM Bank Council on China Competition

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Thomas J. Duesterberg

Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute

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Franklin Edochie

Head of Mining and Metals Investment Unit, Africa Finance Corporation

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Diana Furchtgott-Roth

Director, Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment and The Herbert and Joyce Morgan Fellow in Energy and Environmental Policy, The Heritage Foundation 

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Trevor Gunn

Vice President – International Relations, Medtronic

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Brian Hanrahan

CEO, Lumina Materials

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Thomas Hardy

Acting Director, U.S. Trade and Development Agency

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Hank J. Holland

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Amaero

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Fred Hutchison

President & CEO, The USLNG Association

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Natalie A. Jaresko

EY-Parthenon Managing Director, Turnaround Restructuring and Strategy, Ernst & Young LLP

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Andy Karellas

Executive Director, State International Development Organizations

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John F. Kotek

Senior Vice President, Policy Development and Public Affairs, NEI

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Pablo Koziner

Chief Commercial and Operations Officer, GE Vernova

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Hon. Christopher Landau

Deputy Secretary of State, U.S. Department of State

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Oskar Lewnowski

Founder and Group CEO, Orion Resource Partners

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Hon. Kelly Loeffler

Administrator, U.S. Small Business Administration

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Ambassador Oksana Markarova

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the United States

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Brian Menell

Chairman & CEO, TechMet Limited

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Dustin Meyer

Senior Vice President of Policy, Economics and Regulatory Affairs, API

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Chris Mitman

Founder and Managing Partner, Acre Impact Capital

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Rotimi Morohunfola

Deputy CEO, Head of Business Development, United Bank for Africa

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Boitumelo Mosako

Chief Executive Officer, DBSA

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Irina Paliashvili

President & CEO, USUBC

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Miguel Peñaloza

Export Finance Manager, SBA’s Office of Manufacturing and Trade (OMT)

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Laurie Pieper, Ph.D., CGBP

Assistant Director, Global Resources, Kansas Department of Commerce

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Rt Hon. Dominic Raab

Head of Global Affairs, Appian Capital Advisory

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Hon. Kimberly A. Reed

Former Chairman of Board of Directors, President, & CEO, EXIM

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HE the Hon Dr Kevin Rudd AC

Australia’s Ambassador to the United States of America

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Dan Runde

Senior Vice President, Director of the Project on Prosperity and Development, CSIS

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Venkee Sharma

Executive Chairman, Aquatech International

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Matt Simpson

CEO, Black Iron

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Bonny Slater

Healthcare Leader, Design Director, Senior Associate, Gensler’s Healthcare

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Rowena Smith

Chief Executive Officer, Australian Strategic Materials

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Joshua S. Stinson

Senior Advisor to the Deputy Assistant to the President, Staff Director for International Economics

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Jay Timmons

President and CEO, National Association of Manufacturers, Chairman of the Board, Manufacturing Institute

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Tricia Van Orden

Director of the Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee Secretariat (TPCC), Office of the Under Secretary

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Louis N. Vernon

Director of International Sales, Malco Products, Inc.

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Vuyelwa Vumendlini

Alternate Executive Director, Africa Group 1 Constituency (OEDAE)

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Richard Wilkins

Global Head of Export & Agency Finance Origination, JP Morgan

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Scott Woodard

Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Energy Resources, U.S. Department of State

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Governor Glenn Youngkin

Governor, State of Virginia

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