David L. Fogel

David L. Fogel serves as the Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Director General of the United States and Foreign Commercial Service for the International Trade Administration (ITA) at the U.S. Department of Commerce. In this role, Mr. Fogel leads ITA’s Global Markets business unit dedicated to commercial diplomacy, commercial advocacy, export promotion, and foreign direct investment, with more than a thousand trade professionals across hundreds of offices globally.

Mr. Fogel’s previous public service includes his 2020 appointment as Senior Advisor and Chief Business Development Officer in the Office of the Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment at the U.S. Department of State.  He was subsequently nominated by President Donald J. Trump during his first term as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs.  Prior to his role at the State Department, Mr. Fogel was appointed as Chief of Staff at the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM). At both the State Department and EXIM, Mr. Fogel advocated for U.S. business interests around the world.

In the private sector, Mr. Fogel has built and sold three FinTech companies:  NCCS/Coinmint, a crypto mining company, where he served as Chief Executive Officer; IndexIQ, an indexing and ETF company, where he served as Co-Founder and President; and SmartPortfolio.com, where he served as Co-Founder and Vice President. Mr. Fogel began his career as a corporate attorney at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP.

Mr. Fogel received a B.S.F.S., summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, a J.D., magna cum laude and Order of the Coif, from Georgetown University Law Center, and an M.B.A. from the Georgetown University McDonough School of Business. He also has served as an Adjunct Professor in Entrepreneurship at the Georgetown University Law Center and on the Advisory Board of the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown.