Patricia M. Loui

Patricia M. Loui is an international business and economic development executive whose career spans private and public sectors. President Obama nominated, and the U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed her, for the full-time board of directors of the U.S. Export-Import Bank from 2011 to 2015. Previously on APEC 2011 Leaders Week executive committee, and the United Nations, she chairs Omnitrak Group, an Indo-Pacific marketing/research consultancy she founded 30 years ago. 

At EXIM, Loui led initiatives to increase U.S. exports to Asia, helping negotiate agreements with governments of China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, and Philippines. She advocated for American exports as a keynoter at State’s first US-ASEAN Business Forum, USTR’s first ASEAN Investment Summit, and India’s energy conference. Loui chaired EXIM’s audit committee, co-chaired a U.S. Small Business Delegation to APEC 2015, and received Commerce Department’s National Director Award from the Minority Business Development Agency. 

With a Northwestern University journalism degree, she received an Asian Studies master’s from University of Hawai‘i (UH) while a State Department East West Center (EWC) fellow. She serves on the Inouye Fellowship Committee of the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, and previously on the PLUS Automated Teller Machine System, EWC Association, and UH Foundation Boards.