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Japanese Commercial Attache’, American Embassy Tokyo, Stephen J. Anderson
This program will provide an insightful look at doing business with Japan. Gain useful market information and find out why Japan should become your next market. >>Begin your research
Damian Felton, director of the Milwaukee U.S. Export Assistance Center of the U.S Department of Commerce, will moderate.
Stephen J. Anderson is a Commercial Officer with the U.S. Embassy, Tokyo. Qualified in Japanese and Mandarin Chinese at the Foreign Service Institute, Anderson joined the U.S. & Foreign Commercial Service in 1998. He was assigned to U.S. Embassy, Beijing, from 1999-2002 and U.S. Consulate, Nagoya, from 2002-2006 before a stateside assignment at U.S. Export Assistance Center in Baltimore and assignment in Ireland as Commercial Counselor at the U.S. Embassy, Dublin. Anderson has a doctorate from MIT and taught at the University of Wisconsin Madison, the International University of Japan and the Sellinger School of Business at Loyola College in Maryland. In the Commercial Service, Anderson supports American businesses as they enter overseas markets with "gold key" services and related assistance including business counseling, trade promotion and commercial diplomacy.
Damian Felton is the director of the Milwaukee U.S. Export Assistance Center of the U.S Department of Commerce. Damian leads the Milwaukee office’s efforts to create opportunities for U.S. workers and firms by promoting international trade and assisting Wisconsin businesses to expand their export capabilities. Damian comes to Milwaukee by way of the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, China where he was a primary U.S. government representative ensuring fair and transparent access for U.S. exporters impacted by Chinese trade remedy proceedings. Before Beijing, Damian worked in Washington, D.C. at the U.S. Department of Commerce where he helped to enforce U.S. trade remedy laws that protect U.S. commercial interests from unfair pricing by foreign companies and unfair subsidization of foreign companies by their governments.