Fwd: Breakfast with Lee Zak, Director of US Trade & Development Agency Thursday, May 31 at University Club of Tampa

[HJ Yang]

Dear Friends,

I would like personally invite you, joining us to welcome Ms. Lee Zak, Director of US Trade & Development Agency.

How timely it is for us to have Ms. Zak, Director of  US Trade & Development Agency, coming to Tampa Bay to talk about economic growth in emerging markets after our very successful International Business Summit on that topics.

I would greatly appreciate if you can forward the below announcement to your, friends associates and members.

Please feel free to contact me directly should you have any question.

Best regards,

HJ

Huijun (HJ) Yang, Ph.D.

Chairman

Tampa Bay International Business Council

Leocadia I. Zak serves as the Director of the U.S. Trade and Development Agency where she leads an agency dedicated to encouraging economic growth in emerging markets and the export of U.S. goods and services to those markets. After being nominated by President Obama in November 2009, Ms. Zak was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on March 10, 2010. She had served as Acting Director of the agency since January 20, 2009 and before that was the General Counsel (2000 – 2006) and Deputy Director (2006 – 2009) of USTDA.

Prior to joining USTDA, Ms. Zak was a partner in the Washington, D.C. and Boston offices of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. practicing in the areas of corporate, municipal and international finance. She served as counsel in connection with a variety of project finance transactions for energy, transportation, health care, telecommunications and tourism projects.

Ms. Zak was also an Adjunct Professor of Law and has taught “International Project Finance” at the Boston University School of Law, Morin Center for Banking and Financial Law Studies and at the Georgetown University Law Center.

Ms. Zak received her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College and her J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law.

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