Juan Verde
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Juan Verde is a Spanish American currently serving as International Co-Chair for the reelection campaign of President Barack Obama. He is part of a select team of directors in charge of devising and leading the strategies for the campaign. In addition to developing and directing a strategy designed to mobilize millions of American citizens residing outside of the United States, Mr. Verde serves as an advisor to President Obama on international trade, Hispanic vote and Sustainability related issues.
and a Masters Degree in Public Administration from Harvard University
. He has completed post-graduate business studies at Georgetown University
and Tufts University
. Verde is a former Congressional Hispanic Caucus
Institute fellow.
which later lead to a position as a political and economic advisor for the Boston Mayor Ray Flynn. He then worked as an International Trade Coordinator for the U.S. Department of Commerce during the Clinton
Administration. He later served as a Director for Latin America
and the Iberian Peninsula
for the Corporate Executive Board
(CEB). He has worked also as a consultant to business and political leaders in the United States Europe and Latin America.
Verde founded and presided over the American Chamber of Commerce in the Canary Islands
and has served on the board of several Spanish and North American companies. He was also responsible for ushering U.S. companies such as Critical Solutions and GigaTrust into the European Market.
In December 2009 he was appointed by President Barack Obama
to become the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Europe at the United States Department of Commerce
. He was involved in President Obama's National Export Initiative, which is implemented by the International Trade Administration
and the U.S. Department of Commerce, and he worked closely with the Under Secretary for International Trade Francisco Sanchez
on the initiative.
On October 2011, Verde joined the reelection campaign of President Barack Obama as International Co-Chair.
, President Bill Clinton
, Vice President Al Gore
, Senator John Kerry
, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. In his political work, he specialized in fundraising, a member of Senator Clinton's National Finance Committee, and strategic issues relevant to the Hispanic community such being the strategic advisor on Hispanic Outreach issues for the Kerry Campaign. Verde served on President Obama’s Campaign Committee in 2008, advising the campaign on attracting the Hispanic vote through his work as part of the National Hispanic Leadership Council.
Additionally, Verde was the founder and CEO of The Climate Project Spain
, the Spanish branch of former Vice President Al Gore
’s The Climate Project
nonprofit.
Verde was in Sevilla, Spain, with more than 20 U.S. Businesses, some from the renewable energy sector, for the first U.S. commercial Andalucía. Verde was accompanied by the U.S. Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar
; the Undersecretary for U.S. Department of Commerce, Francisco Sánchez, and former U.S. Representative for Texas's 27th congressional district
, Solomon P. Ortiz
.
Education
Verde received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and International Relations from Boston UniversityBoston University
Boston University is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. With more than 4,000 faculty members and more than 31,000 students, Boston University is one of the largest private universities in the United States and one of Boston's largest employers...
and a Masters Degree in Public Administration from Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
. He has completed post-graduate business studies at Georgetown University
Georgetown University
Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university whose main campus is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic university in the United States...
and Tufts University
Tufts University
Tufts University is a private research university located in Medford/Somerville, near Boston, Massachusetts. It is organized into ten schools, including two undergraduate programs and eight graduate divisions, on four campuses in Massachusetts and on the eastern border of France...
. Verde is a former Congressional Hispanic Caucus
Congressional Hispanic Caucus
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus comprises 21 Democratic members of the United States Congress most of whom are of Hispanic origin. The Caucus is dedicated to voicing and advancing, through the legislative process, issues affecting Hispanics and Latinos in the United States and Puerto Rico...
Institute fellow.
Career
Verde’s career began as a Business and Legislative Aide in the Boston Mayor’s Office and the Boston City CouncilBoston City Council
The Boston City Council is the legislative branch of government for the city of Boston. It is made up of 13 members: 9 district representatives and 4 at-large members. Councilors are elected to two-year terms and there is no limit on the number of terms an individual can serve...
which later lead to a position as a political and economic advisor for the Boston Mayor Ray Flynn. He then worked as an International Trade Coordinator for the U.S. Department of Commerce during the Clinton
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...
Administration. He later served as a Director for Latin America
Latin America
Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...
and the Iberian Peninsula
Iberian Peninsula
The Iberian Peninsula , sometimes called Iberia, is located in the extreme southwest of Europe and includes the modern-day sovereign states of Spain, Portugal and Andorra, as well as the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar...
for the Corporate Executive Board
Corporate Executive Board
The Corporate Executive Board Company is a for-profit, publicly-traded firm that provides best practices research and analysis to business executives and professionals worldwide. CEB offers benchmarking datasets, decision-support tools, research briefs, and case studies, as well as executive...
(CEB). He has worked also as a consultant to business and political leaders in the United States Europe and Latin America.
Verde founded and presided over the American Chamber of Commerce in the Canary Islands
Canary Islands
The Canary Islands , also known as the Canaries , is a Spanish archipelago located just off the northwest coast of mainland Africa, 100 km west of the border between Morocco and the Western Sahara. The Canaries are a Spanish autonomous community and an outermost region of the European Union...
and has served on the board of several Spanish and North American companies. He was also responsible for ushering U.S. companies such as Critical Solutions and GigaTrust into the European Market.
In December 2009 he was appointed by President Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...
to become the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Europe at the United States Department of Commerce
United States Department of Commerce
The United States Department of Commerce is the Cabinet department of the United States government concerned with promoting economic growth. It was originally created as the United States Department of Commerce and Labor on February 14, 1903...
. He was involved in President Obama's National Export Initiative, which is implemented by the International Trade Administration
International Trade Administration
The International Trade Administration is an agency in the United States Department of Commerce that promotes United States exports of nonagricultural U.S...
and the U.S. Department of Commerce, and he worked closely with the Under Secretary for International Trade Francisco Sanchez
Francisco Sanchez
Francisco Sanchez was Commandante of the San Francisco Presidio and the eighth alcalde of San Francisco, California in 1843, and grantee of the Rancho San Pedro.-Life:...
on the initiative.
On October 2011, Verde joined the reelection campaign of President Barack Obama as International Co-Chair.
Political Involvement
Verde has been involved with the campaigns of Senator Ted KennedyTed Kennedy
Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy was a United States Senator from Massachusetts and a member of the Democratic Party. Serving almost 47 years, he was the second most senior member of the Senate when he died and is the fourth-longest-serving senator in United States history...
, President Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...
, Vice President Al Gore
Al Gore
Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. served as the 45th Vice President of the United States , under President Bill Clinton. He was the Democratic Party's nominee for President in the 2000 U.S. presidential election....
, Senator John Kerry
John Kerry
John Forbes Kerry is the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts, the 10th most senior U.S. Senator and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He was the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party in the 2004 presidential election, but lost to former President George W...
, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. In his political work, he specialized in fundraising, a member of Senator Clinton's National Finance Committee, and strategic issues relevant to the Hispanic community such being the strategic advisor on Hispanic Outreach issues for the Kerry Campaign. Verde served on President Obama’s Campaign Committee in 2008, advising the campaign on attracting the Hispanic vote through his work as part of the National Hispanic Leadership Council.
Advocate of Green Technology
Juan Verde, being an advocate for green and sustainable technology, was a speaker at the 2010 International Conference on Clean Energy. He has advised President Obama on environmental affairs and biodiversity While serving as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Europe, he promoted renewable energy, agribusiness and biomedicine companies to expand into Europe.Additionally, Verde was the founder and CEO of The Climate Project Spain
The Climate Project
The Climate Project was founded by Nobel laureate Al Gore in June 2006 and is a non-profit organizationdedicated to calling attention to what it believes are global problems associated with climate change...
, the Spanish branch of former Vice President Al Gore
Al Gore
Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. served as the 45th Vice President of the United States , under President Bill Clinton. He was the Democratic Party's nominee for President in the 2000 U.S. presidential election....
’s The Climate Project
The Climate Project
The Climate Project was founded by Nobel laureate Al Gore in June 2006 and is a non-profit organizationdedicated to calling attention to what it believes are global problems associated with climate change...
nonprofit.
Verde was in Sevilla, Spain, with more than 20 U.S. Businesses, some from the renewable energy sector, for the first U.S. commercial Andalucía. Verde was accompanied by the U.S. Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar
Ken Salazar
Kenneth Lee "Ken" Salazar is the current United States Secretary of the Interior, in the administration of President Barack Obama. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a United States Senator from Colorado from 2005 to 2009. He and Mel Martinez were the first Hispanic U.S...
; the Undersecretary for U.S. Department of Commerce, Francisco Sánchez, and former U.S. Representative for Texas's 27th congressional district
Texas's 27th congressional district
Texas District 27 of the United States House of Representatives is a Congressional district that serves a strip in deep south Texas on the Gulf Coast consisting of Corpus Christi and Brownsville...
, Solomon P. Ortiz
Solomon P. Ortiz
Solomon Porfirio Ortiz is the former U.S. Representative for , serving from 1983 until 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district is based in Corpus Christi...
.
Promoting U.S. and Europe Commerce
On May 17, 2011, Deputy Assistant Secretary Verde took part in the U.S. Government delegation that was headed by Department of State Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Geoffrey R. Pyatt in Ashgabat Turkmenistan. The exhibition had over fifty American companies, with business interests in Turkmenistan, showcasing their goods and services to Turkmenistan government officials.Companies
- Fundacion Biosfera: President
- The Climate Project SpainThe Climate ProjectThe Climate Project was founded by Nobel laureate Al Gore in June 2006 and is a non-profit organizationdedicated to calling attention to what it believes are global problems associated with climate change...
: Founder and CEO - The American Chamber of Commerce in the Canary Islands: Founded and Presided Over
- Public Administration Strategy Solutions (PASS): Founder and former President
- The Corporate Executive BoardCorporate Executive BoardThe Corporate Executive Board Company is a for-profit, publicly-traded firm that provides best practices research and analysis to business executives and professionals worldwide. CEB offers benchmarking datasets, decision-support tools, research briefs, and case studies, as well as executive...
(CEB): Director for Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula - United States Department of CommerceUnited States Department of CommerceThe United States Department of Commerce is the Cabinet department of the United States government concerned with promoting economic growth. It was originally created as the United States Department of Commerce and Labor on February 14, 1903...
: International Trade Administration Deputy Assistant Secretary for Europe
External links
- The Climate Project
- International Trade Administration
- http://twitter.com/#!/JuanVerdeSuarez
- http://www.youtube.com/user/JuanVerdeSuarez
- http://www.expansion.com/2009/10/26/economia-politica/politica/1256595120.html
- http://www.observatorioeconomiasocial.es/actualidad-observatorio.php?id=1571
- http://edition.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/spanish/2011/02/05/eyf.argentina.verde.cnn.html
- http://newscentralasia.net/2011/05/19/first-american-exhibition-in-turkmenistan-a-mixed-bag/
- http://www.eurasianet.org/node/63502
- http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110322005821/en/Abengoa-Host-6th-Annual-Analyst-Investor-Day