Pamela Phan is a Partner at DGA-Albright Stonebridge Group, a founding member of DGA Group, and is based in Washington, D.C. She advises clients on geopolitical and regulatory risk, market access, and strategic opportunity, informed by more than 20 years of government and private sector experience working on trade and investment across Asia (including China, India, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and throughout ASEAN). 

As a recognized policy expert and seasoned negotiator, Ms. Phan has worked extensively with decision-makers at the intersection of economics, diplomacy, and law. Most recently, she was the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Asia at the U.S. Department of Commerce, where she oversaw more than 200 employees based in 17 markets as they implemented U.S. trade policy and supported U.S. businesses facing challenges to market entry, operations, and expansion overseas. In this role, Ms. Phan covered a wide range of geopolitically significant sectors including the digital economy, energy, infrastructure, and manufacturing. She provided strategic analysis and counsel to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick in his successful negotiation of trade and investment deals with Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. She was also a key advisor to former Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo in the launch and execution of critical and emerging technology initiatives with India, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore.  

Previously, Ms. Phan spent nearly a decade at the U.S. Department of State, where she led the Office of Commercial and Business Affairs, guided State’s work on the Board of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, and served as the senior investment treaty negotiator and senior China coordinator for the Economics Bureau under three separate Administrations. Earlier in her career, she spent two years on Capitol Hill and nearly six years as a corporate transactions lawyer in New York, Hong Kong, Beijing, and Singapore. 

Ms. Phan holds a J.D. from Columbia Law School and a B.A. in international relations from Stanford University. She is licensed to practice law in New York and California and has held teaching positions at Stanford Law School, at the George Washington University School of Law, and as a Yale-China Association fellow at law schools in China. She grew up speaking Vietnamese and also speaks Mandarin Chinese.