The 2nd annual U.S. – Saudi Business Opportunities Forum is a high-level gathering of senior officials and business leaders from Saudi Arabia and the United States. This three-day forum will explore opportunities for greater economic collaboration between the two nations as well as provide an unparalleled business networking environment.

2010 US-SAUDI BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES FORUM

APRIL 27-29 | CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

ATLANTA, GA

MAY 23-25, 2011

Andre Lewis

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Education for International and Foreign Language Education

Andre Lewis is the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Education for International and Foreign Language Education for the U.S. Department of Education. President Barack Obama appointed Mr. Lewis to the newly created position in October 2009. In that capacity, he oversees the implementation of both President Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s priorities for international and foreign language education to be taught at the K-12 and post secondary levels.

Mr. Lewis began his career in the government when he joined the administration of President Bill Clinton. Under the Clinton administration, he worked on global warming, coral reef preservation, biodiversity, and other global environmental issues at the U.S. Department of State. After working on the 1996 Clinton re-election campaign, Mr. Lewis returned to the Department of State, where he was Special Advisor on Economic and Security Policies related to the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union.

In 1999, Mr. Lewis left the administration to work in the office of California Congresswoman Juanita Millender McDonald as her Chief of Staff for two years. It was then that officials in the Gray Davis re-election campaign asked him to join as the Southern California Political Director. After the election, Andre Lewis was appointed Deputy Cabinet Secretary to Governor Gray Davis. Following his time in the Davis administration, Mr. Lewis worked for a short period in the non-profit housing sector. Mr. Lewis returned to public service in 2006, when he was appointed as Director of International Trade and Development for the City of Los Angeles in the office of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.

Mr. Lewis attended junior college and then transferred to the University of California, Berkeley where he graduated with a degree in History, emphasizing Soviet Studies. He then returned to Massachusetts to attend law school at the Boston University School of Law.