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Meet
your host, Doug Barry, and today's guest:
Craig
Allen was officially appointed the Minister-Counselor for Commercial
Affairs of the United States Embassy in Beijing, in June 2003.
Craig Allen previously served as Senior Commercial Advisor for the
National Center for Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) in
Seattle, Washington. From 1995 to 2000, he served as the Commercial
Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, Japan. From 1992 to 1995, he
served as Commercial Attaché in Beijing, the People's Republic of
China. From 1988 to 1992, he was Director of the U.S. Trade Center
at the American Institute in Taiwan, located in Taipei. Allen also
worked as a Presidential Management Intern on the China Desk at the
Department of Commerce from 1985 to 1988. Allen started his
government career at the Office of Technology Assessment, formerly
part of the U.S. Congress.
Craig Allen received a B.A. from the University of Michigan in
Political Science and Asian Studies in 1979. He received a Masters
of Science for the Foreign Service from Georgetown University in
1985. He speaks Chinese and Japanese.
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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