Dillon Banerjee

Dillon Banerjee is currently serving as the Principal Commercial Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico, where he manages a team of three Commercial Officers and 12 Commercial Specialists covering sectors as diverse as automotive, energy and consumer goods to defense, aerospace and construction. He was previously the Senior Commercial Officer for the U.S. Embassy in Lisbon from 2007 to 2011, where he managed five Commercial Specialists covering a full range of industry and service sectors. In addition to directing the U.S. government’s trade promotion programs, Dillon represented the Embassy on the Board of Directors for the American Club of Lisbon and the American Chamber of Commerce in Portugal.

Dillon served as Commercial Officer to the U.S. Embassy in Russia from 2004 through 2006. In Moscow, he managed U.S. export promotion and business facilitation activities in several key sectors, including Oil and Gas, Energy, Mining, Construction, Finance, and Franchising. He advocated on behalf of U.S. firms facing market access barriers, enhanced the Commercial Service’s e-commerce program, and represented the Department of Commerce on the Secretary’s Strategic Bilateral Commercial Energy Dialogue (CED). He also played an active role with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Before his assignment to Moscow, Dillon completed two years with CS Nigeria in Lagos. While in Nigeria, he directly managed the Embassy’s strategic business advocacy cases, focusing primarily on the oil/gas and telecom sectors. He counseled American and Nigerian firms on trade and strategic alliance opportunities through the Embassy’s Networking with the USA (NUSA) program, and coordinated trade finance activities with the U.S. EXIM Bank and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC).

Prior to joining the U.S. & Foreign Commercial Service, Dillon worked as a Program Officer for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in Washington, D.C. and Pretoria, South Africa. He also worked for three years as a Project Officer for the Environmental Protection Agency and served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Cameroon, West Africa. He received an Executive Master’s Degree in Sustainable Energy Systems in 2009 from MIT’s international post-graduate program in Portugal. He holds a Master’s Degree in International Development from the School of International Service at The American University, and received his Bachelor’s Degree in Government and International Economics from The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA. He is the author of The Insider’s Guide to the Peace Corps, published by Random House (Second Edition, 2009).