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Meet your host,
Doug Barry, and his guest, Michael
Lally, Director of the U.S. Export Assistance Center in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Michael A. Lally
Director, U.S. Export Assistance Center
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Mr. Lally, a career member
of the Foreign Service, is Director of the U.S. Export Assistance
Center in Philadelphia, providing business consulting and advisory
on overseas market development. Prior to this position, Mr. Lally
was Senior Commercial Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Baku,
Azerbaijan where he worked extensively on energy and transportation
transactions. From 1999-2000, Mr. Lally was with the AES
Corporation, the world’s largest independent power producer, as Vice
President for Business Development and head of AES’s Moscow office.
Prior to that, Mr. Lally was Senior Commercial Officer with the U.S.
Embassy in Almaty, Kazakhstan (1996-1999), where he advised on
privatization transactions and advocacy with the Kazakhstani
government and U.S. firms. From 1993-1996, Mr. Lally was Deputy
Commercial Attaché at the U.S. Embassy, Kiev, Ukraine, where he
participated in opening the first U.S. Commercial Office in
independent Ukraine. In 2002, Mr. Lally
was temporarily posted to Afghanistan to support U.S. business
development in telecoms
and a major hotel venture.
Before joining the Foreign Service, Mr. Lally was an Energy Analyst
with the Science Applications International Corporation in McLean,
Virginia, where he specialized in post-Soviet energy markets. Mr.
Lally has nine years of in-country expertise in the former Soviet
Union, specializing in oil and gas, power generation and
distribution, infrastructure, and trade and project finance. Mr.
Lally holds a Master’s Degree from Indiana University and Bachelor
Degrees from The American University in Washington D.C. He speaks
Russian and French and is learning Spanish. He holds Bronze and
Silver Medals for superior federal service and support of U.S.
business development overseas. He is a student in the Wharton
Management Program of the University of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Lally’s next assignment will be to the U.S. Embassy’s Commercial
Service, in Mexico City, Mexico, beginning in Summer 2006. As Deputy
Commercial Counselor, Mr. Lally will be the Chief Operating Officer
for an export promotion program spanning four Mexican cities, with a
team of sixty professionals.
Mr. Lally is married to the former Lilia Chichikal, a native of
Kiev, Ukraine, and has a daughter, Marianna Alexandra. They live in
the Chestnut Hill area of Philadelphia.
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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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