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Lon’s International Trade Policy Experience
Lon Hatamiya served as Secretary of the California Technology, Trade and Commerce Agency, the state’s primary promoter of economic development, job creation, and business retention efforts. In that capacity, he also served as Chairman of the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank, as well as Chairman of the California Travel and Tourism Commission, the California Defense Retention Council, and Team California.
He also served as Administrator of the Foreign Agricultural Service at the United States Department of Agriculture (“USDA”), where he administered a worldwide agency of nearly 1,000 employees, including over 200 Foreign Service officers, and a budget of over $7 billion that fosters the growth of exports of American agricultural, fish, and forest products. He was responsible for USDA’s obligations in international trade agreements, negotiations, and trade policy development and oversaw reporting of global agricultural production and trade and administered various export development and assistance programs, including the Market Access Program, Foreign Market Development Program, Emerging Markets Program, GSM-102 and -103 export credit programs, and Public Law 480 Title I. As Adminsistrator, he also coordinated USDA’s role in international food aid programs, such as Food for Progress, and provided linkages to worldwide technologies and resources that can benefit U.S. agriculture. Hatamiya testified numerous times before the World Trade Organization.
As an academic, Hatamiya currently serves as a lecturer at the International Masters in Law Program at the UC Davis School of Law, and as a Senior Fellow at the University of Denver International Career Advancement Program. He previously served as Executive-in-Residence and Adjunct Professor at the UC Davis Graduate School of Management, where he taught a course on organizational change. He was also selected as a Senior Fellow at the UCLA School of Public Policy. He has been a visiting lecturer at Harvard University, Stanford University, UCLA, USC, UC San Diego, Golden Gate University, San Diego State, San Francisco State, CSU Chico, CSU Sacramento, and Cal Poly Pomona.
The Hatamiya Group provides practical advice, grounded in experience, to take your business to the global market.
