Ryan Barnes Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• Develop and execute strategy for trade policy and compliance initiatives, projects and processes for Meta’s trade counsel team. • Manage multiple interdependent projects of high complexity and broad scope.• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to coordinate trade policy and compliance programs, operations and initiatives.• Monitor regulatory changes/industry trends and lead comms related to policy, sanctions, and export/import compliance.

Greater New York City Area

• Helped NYC-based companies expand internationally, focusing on the following sectors: digital economy/smart cities, healthcare, aerospace & defense, design & construction, energy & environmental, and advanced manufacturing. • Led UN Procurement Initiative, facilitating commercial deals between U.S. companies and the United Nations.

• Temporary assignment as Acting Senior Commercial Officer in Serbia, managing the team and leading the commercial section of the embassy during a turbulent period: March-May 2020• Temporary assignment in Mozambique to help prepare for the U.S.-Africa Business Summit: May-June 2019• Temporary assignment in Ethiopia to help organize and implement the President’s Advisory Committee on Doing Business in Africa (PAC-DBIA) delegation visit: May-June 2018• Acting Senior Commercial Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Aug-Sep 2016• Acting Senior Commercial Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Budapest, Hungary: June-August 2014

Washington, District Of Columbia

• Managed commercial relations with the seventeen countries in Central & Southeast Europe, supervised international trade specialists, and continued to serve as lead on the UK/Brexit.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Office of European Country Affairs•Served as desk officer for the United Kingdom, Greece, Turkey, Romania, Cyprus, Serbia, and Macedonia, monitoring political and economic conditions in these countries and throughout the region.•Collaborated with U.S. companies in various industries such as healthcare and ICT to eliminate market access barriers in Central and Southeastern Europe.•Prepared reports, talking points, speech materials, statistical data and correspondence for department officials and trade delegations.•Participated in USG interagency negotiating team for the U.S.-EU Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership (TTIP) and U.S-UK Trade & Investment Working Group talks.

•Performed financial research on Latin American and Iberian markets for institutional shareholder clients.•Analyzed and translated shareholder meeting agendas, providing voting recommendations to shareholders.•Organized meetings with clients to discuss corporate governance practices.

•Conducted research, analyzed data, and wrote the sections on Research and Development and Capital Expenditures for the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) Assessment on microchips.•Created and helped maintain the mailing list and database of nearly five hundred participants for the DIB on the presence of counterfeit electronics in the supply chain.•Assisted in the development of the counterfeit electronics survey by reviewing sections and providing suggestions for improvement.•Organized discussions with industry officials on high-technology issues.

•Researched and analyzed the export control regimes of European countries and Japan.•Coordinated the Aerospace Project, which evaluated the competitiveness of the domestic aerospace industry by using data obtained from over two hundred companies.•Held training seminars on Departmental issues and regulations such as “short supply".

•Led the effort to create country reports for the 38 countries of “Eurasia,” which outline the economic/political realities and environmental conditions within these countries.•Produced country profiles for Poland and the Baltics (Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia).•Organized lectures and events at various European embassies in Washington through the “Evenings at the Embassy” series.

•Co-authored a research paper with CDI Director analyzing President Bush’s 2nd term transatlantic policy.•Researched and wrote pieces, largely on issues regarding the European Union, for CDI’s upcoming web pages.•Reviewed various periodicals and gathered articles of interest to the organization.

Certificate, Global Business

Certificate, Multinational Financial Management

M.A., International Affairs/Comparative And Regional Studies: Europe

•M.A. Oral Comprehensive Exam: passed with distinction

B.A., Political Science/International Relations

•Study Abroad Program, Pamplona, Spain, Spring 2003