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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