EXIM Chairman Kimberly Reed’s Meeting with U.S. Ambassador to Thailand Michael DeSombre

President and Chairman of the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) Kimberly A. Reed met today via teleconference with U.S. Ambassador to Thailand Michael DeSombre as a continuation of their January 2020 discussion on how EXIM can help American businesses export their “Made in the USA” goods and services to Thailand.

During the meeting, Chairman Reed and Ambassador DeSombre discussed EXIM’s Program on China and Transformational Exports and how EXIM can support U.S. companies and key transformational export industries, including 5G and biomedical sciences, as they compete against Chinese-backed entities in Thailand and throughout the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region.

Chairman Reed previously met with Ambassador DeSombre on January 24, 2020, at EXIM’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. In November 2019, Chairman Reed participated in the Indo-Pacific Business Forum in Bangkok, where she met with government and private-sector leaders to emphasize how EXIM can help facilitate trade in the Indo-Pacific region while creating American jobs at home, and then joined Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs Ambassador Robert C. O’Brien at the 14th Annual East Asia Summit. During that visit, she also met with President Pisit Serewiwattana of the Export-Import Bank of Thailand (Thai EXIMBANK), the official Thai export credit agency (ECA), and discussed ways the two ECAs could collaborate on projects in the region involving U.S. exports.

EXIM President and Chairman Kimberly A. Reed and U.S. Ambassador to Thailand Michael DeSombre during their January 24, 2020, meeting at EXIM headquarters in Washington, D.C.