 Vinai Thummalapally, Executive Director, SelectUSA
SelectUSA was created to promote and facilitate foreign direct investment (FDI) into the United States, because FDI supports 12 million jobs, drives more than one-fifth of U.S. goods exports, and contributes to American innovation. We are continuing to focus on enhancing our services for U.S. economic development organizations (EDOs) and companies seeking to establish or expand operations, and we are thrilled to introduce our new Director of Investment Services: Anne McKinney.
Anne has more than 20 years of diverse experience working on international trade, investment, and economic development issues. As Deputy Executive Director of the Colombian American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham Colombia) in Bogotá, she worked for nearly seven years with leading U.S. and Colombian companies and helped advance the chamber’s policy agenda on a wide range of trade, investment, regulatory, and sustainable development issues. Prior to joining AmCham Colombia, Anne worked as a consultant to Cisco Systems’ Strategic Funding and Government Advocacy team in Latin America, where she produced actionable market intelligence for public sector sales teams and developed a sales funnel in seven priority markets.
Anne’s experience also includes more than 12 years at the U.S. Trade and Development Agency as a Regional Director and Country Manager. During her time with USTDA, Anne fostered partnerships between the U.S. private sector and overseas project sponsors, which helped generate U.S. exports and enabled USTDA to respond to priority development objectives in the Latin America and Caribbean region. She coordinated with other U.S. government agencies and developed projects to support U.S. policy initiatives related to market access, intellectual property rights, trade facilitation, energy, and more.
Anne has an M.A. in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), with concentrations in International Economics and Latin American Studies and a B.A. in International Studies from American University.
We are incredibly fortunate to have someone as talented as Anne on our team, especially during our busiest and most exciting year yet. On April 25-29, SelectUSA will head the U.S. Investment Pavilion at the world’s leading industrial trade show, Hannover Messe in Hannover, Germany. And, of course, on June 19-21, we will be welcoming more than 2,000 international business leaders and investors, economic developers, and government officials to Washington, DC for our third SelectUSA Investment Summit. I know Anne is looking forward to working with many of you, as we gear up for these landmark events.
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