政治組
AIT今天發布,美國國務院主管經濟與商業事務的助理國務卿查爾斯‧芮福金(Charles H. Rivkin)將於5月31日至6月3日首度訪台。
AIT表示,芮福金預定於「2015台北國際電腦展」的開幕典禮上致開幕詞,他也將出席在TAF空總創新基地舉行的美國麻省理工學院多媒體實驗室「未來城市工作坊」(Future City Workshop)之開幕式並致詞。此外,芮福金也將和台灣資深官員和民間企業代表會面,討論美台雙邊關切的重要經貿議題。
芮福金於2014年2月13日就任現職,並在2014年4月15日於國務卿約翰‧凱瑞面前宣誓就職。芮福金所帶領的國務院經濟暨商業事務局,負責處理貿易談判、投資協議、經濟制裁、交通運輸事務、電信政策、國際金融與發展議題、以及智慧財產權的保護。經濟暨商業事務局也扮演著國務院和民間部門之間的主要橋樑,透過旗下的商務處為美國在海外的商業利益提供支持,在國內則透過吸引外國投資來創造就業機會。此外,芮福金助卿也為美國國務院派駐在全球各地與經濟合作發展組織的1,600名經濟官提供政策指引。Charles H. Rivkin began serving as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs on February 13, 2014, and was sworn in by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on April 15, 2014. Rivkin leads a bureau at the U.S. State Department that is responsible for managing trade negotiations, investment treaties, economic sanctions, transportation affairs, telecommunications policy, international finance and development related issues, as well as intellectual property right protection. The Bureau is also the State Department’s primary link to the private sector through its Office of Commercial and Business Affairs, which supports U.S. business interests overseas and works to create American jobs at home by facilitating foreign investment. In addition, Assistant Secretary Rivkin provides guidance to the Department’s 1,600 economic officers around the world and to the U.S. Mission to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
Prior to his appointment, Assistant Secretary Rivkin served for more than four years as the United States Ambassador to France and Monaco. He is part of a team of business leaders at the State Department who were brought in to support Secretary Kerry’s mandate that “economic policy is foreign policy.”