San Jose, CA

Ms. Aileen Crowe Nandi arrived in California in August 2011 for a domestic stint at the San Jose (Silicon Valley) Export Assistance Center. Following her five years in India, she assists U.S. companies to enter the Indian market and focuses on the digital media and cloud computing industries. Her most recent assignment was Chennai, India, where she served from 2008-2011. There Ms. Nandi advocated for U.S. commercial interests and organized trade promotion activities in South India, including path-breaking trade missions for energy efficiency, franchising and cosmetics companies. She was also responsible for the education, biotech, machine tools, and automotive sectors. As Principal Commercial Officer for four states in South India, Ms. Nandi managed three U.S. Commercial Service offices (Chennai, Bangalore and Hyderabad) and coordinated with Colombo, Sri Lanka, a partnership post.

Among her career highlights were two years in Calcutta, India (2006-2008), where she served as the first-ever Principal Commercial Officer at post. There she led the CS India mining and food processing teams and established a vibrant partnership program with Dhaka, Bangladesh. Prior to her India experience, Ms. Nandi was a Commercial Officer in Mexico City, Mexico from 2003-2006 and received awards from the U.S. Department of Commerce and U.S. Department of State for her trade promotion work. Her industries and expertise in Mexico ranged from oil and gas, environment, travel and tourism, services and U.S. Government trade finance programs. Before joining the U.S. Commercial Service in 2002, Ms. Nandi worked as a Country Manager for Central/Eastern Europe with the U.S. Trade and Development Agency from 1998-2002.

Ms. Nandi has an MA from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She was a Fulbright Scholar to Dresden, Germany, where she researched the unemployment effects among women after German unification. Ms. Nandi also holds a BA in economics and international studies from the University of Richmond in Virginia. She speaks German and Spanish. She is married and has a daughter.