U.S. Embassy – Tokyo
Deputy Senior Commercial Officer
Steve Knode is the Deputy Senior Commercial Officer (DSCO) at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, Japan. Most recently, he served as the Senior Commercial Officer for U.S. Commercial Service (USCS) in Pakistan, based in Karachi, and previously, the head of USCS in São Paulo, Brazil. Part of the U.S. Department of Commerce, USCS is the principal trade and investment promotion agency of the U.S. government.
Steve has held a variety of postings with USCS, including as a commercial officer at the Long Island Export Assistance Center (Old Westbury, New York), the U.S. Embassy in Budapest, Hungary, and the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, Japan. Steve also worked at the U.S. Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for the United States-Asia Environmental Partnership (US-AEP), a U.S. government program jointly funded by Commerce and USAID to promote U.S. environmental technologies.
Prior to joining the U.S. Department of Commerce and becoming a Foreign Service Officer, Steve spent more than seven years in the public/investor relations industry, working with Ogilvy Adams & Rinehart (now Ogilvy PR) and other agencies.
Steve received a B.A. in political science from Denison University, and an MBA from Cornell University’s S.C. Johnson School of Management.