International Trade Career Panel

Careers in international trade span numerous roles and responsibilities across the government and private sectors. Hear from professionals involved in a range of trade issues about their career journeys and get their advice on how to get started on a career in trade! Featuring Meredith Bond, the Director of the US Commercial Service’s Omaha office, a federal agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce. She works with clients across Nebraska and southwest Iowa to develop international marketing strategies, locate overseas business contacts and solve export process problems. Greg Ibach, Under Secretary in Residence at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources. In his role, In his role with IANR, Mr. Ibach works to connect UNL Research, Teaching and Extension expertise to current policy initiatives and opportunities at the state and federal government level. Mr. Ibach spent the past three years as USDA’s Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs. Broderick Lewis, Senior Manager, Revenue Management (Asia Export Solutions) at Tyson Foods. In the role he is accountable for the profit and loss and for building and executing on U.S. value added export business strategies to East Asia (China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan). Anku Nath Mancini serves as Manager for Advanced Analytics in John Deere’s captive finance unit where she oversees a data science team focused on modeling and mitigating financial risk. Until October 2018, she served as Deere’s Director for Federal Affairs and Trade Policy through which she had responsibility for policy strategy and advocacy with US executive and legislative bodies, with a specific focus on developing and promoting Deere’s perspectives on US trade policies.