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Meet
your host, Doug Barry, and today's guests:
U.S. Ambassador to
Chile William
Brownfield and Senior Commercial Officer Americo
Tadeu.
William Brownfield
U.S. Ambassador to Chile
William Brownfield was confirmed as
U.S. Ambassador to Chile in January 2002. A career member of the
U.S. Senior Foreign Service, Ambassador Brownfield has most recently
served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Western
Hemisphere, where he was responsible for U.S. relations with the
Andean region, Caribbean, Haiti, and Cuba. In the recent past, the
portfolio has included U.S. support for Plan Colombia, transition to
democracy in Peru, a new government in Venezuela, counter-narcotics,
the Elian Gonzalez dispute with Cuba, and implementation of the U.S.
– Caribbean Summit initiatives of 1997.
Previously, Ambassador Brownfield was Principal Deputy Assistant
Secretary for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement. He
managed over $300 million of annual counter-narcotics assistance
programs, a State Department air wing of more than forty aircraft,
foreign activities by the U.S. law enforcement community, and U.S.
civilian policing operations in Bosnia, Kosovo, Haiti and East
Timor.
Ambassador Brownfield’s last overseas posting was a Chief of the
Humanitarian Affairs Section at the U.S. Mission to Geneva, a multi-
agency office that administers $430 million in annual assistance to
Geneva-based refugee and humanitarian agencies. He also served in
Argentina, El Salvador, and Venezuela. He was temporarily assigned
as Political Adviser to the Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Southern
Command in Panama 1989-90.
Ambassador Brownfield has served in Washington as Director for
Policy in the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement
Affairs, Executive Assistant in the Bureau of Interamerican Affairs
Member of the Secretary’s Policy Planning Staff, Special Assistant
to the Under Secretary for Political Affairs, Desk Officer for El
Salvador, and Staff Officer in the Executive Secretariat.
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Americo A. Tadeu, Senior Commercial
Officer, Santiago, Chile
Americo
“Mack” Tadeu currently serves as the Commercial Counselor at the
U.S. Embassy in Santiago, Chile. He arrived in Chile, in January
2003. Principal responsibilities include: sponsoring trade
exhibitions, organizing individual company and group commercial
missions, preparing market research reports, reporting investment
and trade opportunities for U.S. exports and investment, and
advocating on behalf of U.S. companies. Of particular focus, the
Commercial Office in Chile is dedicated to identifying new market
and investment opportunities for U.S. companies under the recently
negotiated Free Trade Agreement between the U.S. and Chile. Prior to
his arrival in Chile, he served as Acting Regional Director for the
East Asia Pacific region of the US Commercial Service (CS) at the US
Department of Commerce. As the Regional Director, he supervised the
work of commercial officers and their staffs in the 13 most
commercially dynamic countries in that region, such as, China,
Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong. While in Washington, he also
served as the Senior Advisor of the Career Development and
Assignments Division. As Senior Advisor his principal duties
included: promoting, recruiting, assessing, counseling and assigning
commercial officers to onward assignments among the 200+ domestic
and international CS offices.
Mack served as the Deputy Senior Commercial Officer for the U.S.
Commercial Service, at the U.S. Embassy in Brasilia, Brazil from
1995-1999. He was in charge of administration and governmental
commercial relations for four commercial offices in country. Prior
to arriving to Brazil in September 1995 Mack was the Senior
Commercial Officer in Panama for two years and Principal Commercial
Officer for two and one half years at the Consulate General in
Guadalajara, Mexico. His tenure in Mexico fell during the
negotiations of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
From 1987 to 1990, Mr. Tadeu was an International Trade Specialist
for Central America with the Caribbean Basin Division, also at the
U.S. Department of Commerce. He began his career with the U.S.
Department of Commerce as an Import Compliance Specialist with the
Anti-Dumping Division of the Import Administration. In the private
sector, Mack worked as a Research Analyst for two consulting firms.
Mr. Tadeu earned an MA in International Affairs from the School of
International Service at The American University, Washington, DC, in
1982. His academic concentrations were International Business and
Latin American Studies. In 1980, he earned a BA from Drew
University, located in Madison, NJ. His majors were Political
Science and Spanish Literature.
Mack speaks Spanish and Portuguese fluently. He is a native of
Danbury, CT, and currently lives in Santiago, Chile with his wife
and three children.
Doug
Barry joined the U.S. Commercial Service, the global business solutions
unit of the Department of Commerce, in 1998. Barry has served as
an international trade specialist, helping U.S. companies enter
emerging markets in Russia and elsewhere in the former Soviet Union.
He earned his undergraduate degree from San Francisco State University
and has graduate degrees from New York University and Columbia University.
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