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Here's the bio of the person who is going to speak on Sunday. Please don't
publicize this yet or tell anyone else yet until I talk to his staff
tomorrow and confirm everything. I'll have it all confirmed tomorrow.

TONG, KURT
[image: Photo of Kurt Tong]
Kurt Tong
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary
BUREAU OF ECONOMIC AND BUSINESS AFFAIRS
Term of Appointment: 07/10/2014 to present

Kurt Tong has served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau
of Economic and Business Affairs at the Department of State since July 2014.

Before joining the Bureau, Mr. Tong served for three years as the Deputy
Chief of Mission in Tokyo, Japan. Prior to his time in Tokyo, he was the
U.S. Ambassador for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), managing all
aspects of U.S. participation in APEC, while concurrently serving as the
Economic Coordinator for the State Department's Bureau of East Asian and
Pacific Affairs, organizing bureau-wide efforts on economic policy.

Mr. Tong has been an economic affairs diplomat for the State Department
since 1990, including service as Director for Asian Economic Affairs at the
National Security Council from 2006 to 2008 and as Economic
Minister-Counselor in Seoul from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he was
Counselor for Environment, Science and Health in Beijing and served as
Deputy Treasury Attaché in Tokyo and as an economic officer in Manila. Mr.
Tong was a Visiting Scholar at the Tokyo University Faculty of Economics
from 1995 to 1996. Prior to joining the Foreign Service, he was an
Associate with the Boston Consulting Group in Tokyo.

Mr. Tong holds a B.A. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and
International Affairs at Princeton University, and studied graduate-level
economics at the U.S. Foreign Service Institute. He has also studied at the
Beijing Institute of Education, Inter-University Program for Chinese
Language Studies in Taipei, Inter-University Center for Japanese Language
Studies in Tokyo, and International Christian University in Tokyo.

Mr. Tong speaks and reads Japanese and Mandarin Chinese. He has published
articles in Foreign Policy and Nihon Keizai Kenkyu (an academic journal of
the Japan Center for Economic Research). He was born in Ohio and raised in
Massachusetts, and enjoys soccer, tennis and other sports.

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Eric D. Schwerin
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