Acting Global Education Team Leader
U.S. Department of Commerce
Kansas City, Missouri
Pinki Thakker serves as the Acting Global Education Team Leader for the U.S. Department of Commerce. In this role, she manages and oversees U.S. Commercial Service Education Team programs that assist U.S. educational institutions with international promotion and recruitment efforts. She also oversees U.S. Commercial Service collaboration with education partners both domestically and abroad.
Prior to this assignment, Pinki was a Senior International Trade Specialist at the U.S. Commercial Service in Kansas City, Missouri, the trade promotion arm of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration. She provided export counseling and international trade promotion services to the business community across Kansas and Missouri in key industry sectors (including advanced manufacturing, agribusiness, consumer goods, education, energy, and textiles and apparel). Before joining the U.S. government, Pinki worked at nonprofit Asia Society India Centre in Mumbai, India, where she developed public education programming that fostered greater understanding of Asia Pacific affairs in policy, business, arts, and culture.
Pinki is a graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia, where she earned a Master’s in Business Administration and holds Bachelor’s degrees in International Studies, Anthropology, and French Language and Literature.
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