Regional Director, Asia/Pacific, U.S. Commercial Service, U.S. Department of Commerce

Washington D.C.

Don G. Nay is the Regional Director for East Asia and the Pacific for the U.S. Department of Commerce’s U.S. & Foreign Commercial Service. Previously, Mr. Nay served as the Senior Commercial Officer in Vietnam where he managed the Commercial Service operations in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.

In 2009, Ambassador Michalak was awarded the State Department's Cobb Award as "the Ambassador who demonstrated the most initiative and success in trade development." This award recognition is the result of the teamwork generated from the seamless Commercial/Economic country team activity in Hanoi and HCMC led by the Ambassador with Mr. Nay playing a lead role. In 2008, Mr. Nay and his team were recipients of the Director General's Innovation Award.

Prior to his posting in Vietnam, Mr. Nay was Deputy Senior Commercial Officer in New Delhi where he had operational responsibility for seven commercial representations in India, the most extensive countrywide presence that the Commercial Service has in any country. In 2004, Mr. Nay was presented with the International Trade Administration's Steven Kaminsky Memorial Award. Prior to this assignment, Mr. Nay covered Southern India from the U.S. Consulate in Chennai as Commercial Consul. Mr. Nay also served as Chairman of the Board of the American International School of Chennai during this period where, under his leadership, an $8 million purpose built and world-class school campus was constructed, which now accommodates over 400 children from over 20 countries.

Prior to his Chennai posting, Mr. Nay was the Director of the Ronald H. Brown Commercial Center in Johannesburg, South Africa, which was dedicated by President Clinton and the First Lady in March 1998. As member of the Commercial Service South Africa team, Mr. Nay was a recipient of a Group Gold Medal Award.

Prior to his three-and-a-half year assignment in South Africa, Mr. Nay served for four years as Commercial Attaché at the U.S. Embassy in The Hague. Mr. Nay joined the Commercial Service in 1985 and has served as a Trade Specialist with the San Francisco and Atlanta District offices.

He also served as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in the Philippines (1978-80) and worked with the U.S. Indochinese Refugee Program based in the Philippines (1980-82).

Mr. Nay earned a BA from the University of Arizona and an MBA from the Thunderbird School of Global Management. He is accompanied by his wife Nancy, who is the Deputy Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control's Global AIDS Program in Vietnam. Don and Nancy have two children.