Yasue Pai's Bio

Yasue Pai

Yasue Pai has served as the Senior Commercial Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa since September 2020 leads the Commercial Service operations in Ethiopia to broaden the U.S.-Ethiopia commercial relationship.

Prior to Addis Ababa, she served as the Deputy Senior Commercial Officer at the U.S. Mission to the EU. In that position, she was responsible for the day to day operations and supported the Regional Senior Commercial Officer in coordinating the integration of pan European trade policy and promotion across 25 CS Europe posts. Yasue has also served in Embassy Beijing, Embassy Hanoi, and Consulate Shenyang.

Before joining the Commercial Service in July 2006, she worked in the financial services industry, as Director of Research at Stirling Finance in Hong Kong focusing on pension reform and asset management developments in the Asia Pacific region and in research with NatWest Securities in Hong Kong and Moody’s Investors Service in New York. Yasue received her B.Sc. in Finance and Japanese from New York University and her M.A. in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University. She speaks Mandarin Chinese, and functional Japanese and Vietnamese.