Irving A. Williamson, Chairman of the United States International Trade Commission (USITC), announced today that Jonathan R. Coleman has been named Director, Office of Industries, at the USITC.

Coleman will direct the work of the agency’s professional international trade analysts and support the Commission in its role as adviser to Congress and the President on international trade matters.

“The Commission is pleased to welcome Jonathan into his new role,” said Chairman Williamson. “The agency has benefited from his expertise and leadership strengths for many years, and they will serve us well as we move forward with new analytical and administrative responsibilities in the years ahead.”

Over his 20 years at the USITC, Coleman has served as Acting Director of the USITC Office of Industries from January 13 to August 12, 2016, and Chief of the Office of Industries’ Agriculture and Fisheries Division for 10 years.  He started as an International Trade Analyst in the office’s Agriculture Division in 1996.

Before coming to the USITC, Coleman worked as an economist and an agriculture economist at the World Bank, and he served as a senior economist at Sparks Companies in McLean, VA.  He began his career as a research economist at the Australian Bureau of Agricultural Economics in Canberra, Australia.

Coleman holds a Ph.D. in agricultural economics from Michigan State University; a master of science degree in agricultural and resource economics from the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario, Canada; and a bachelor of science degree in economics from the University of Newcastle, Newcastle, England.

The U.S. International Trade Commission is an independent, nonpartisan, quasi-judicial federal agency that provides trade expertise to both the legislative and executive branches of government, determines the impact of imports on U.S. industries, and directs actions against certain unfair trade practices in import trade, such as patent and trademark infringement.