What happens when you pursue your dreams? What if we all embraced an intentional approach to life and went after our goals? Well, you may end up living around the world, working within different cultures, and impacting hundreds, maybe thousands of people across the globe! My guest this week dreamed of being a diplomat at age 15, and she has worked to make that dream a reality as a career foreign commercial service officer. Camille Richardson is the Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Middle East and Africa for the International Trade Administration.
Camille describes her job and role in helping U.S. businesses explore international opportunities and create export strategies. She shares her 30-year career journey from serving as a Presidential Management Fellow to her current role, how she found her purpose and the personal and professional challenges she faced.
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Camille Richardson is a tenured Senior Foreign Service officer with the U.S. Commercial Service. She began her career in government with the International Trade Administration (ITA) at the U.S. Department of Commerce in 1993 and became an accredited diplomat with the U.S. Commercial Service in 1998. Camille has served in Miami, FL; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Nairobi, Kenya; Mumbai, India, and Sao Paulo, Brazil facilitating commercial partnerships between U.S. and local companies. In 2021, she was appointed as Commerce ITA’s new Deputy Assistant Secretary for the MEA region.
A native of Washington, D.C., Camille earned a B.A. in International Relations from Brown University and an M.A. in International Relations from Johns Hopkins/SAIS