Hemisphere affairs and executive vice president of the Association of American Chambers of Commerce in Latin America (AACCLA). In 2008, he received AACCLA’s Eagle of the Americas Award for advancing U.S.- Latin American trade and investment. Earlier in his career, Murphy worked at the International Republican Institute and the Center for International Private Enterprise, promoting democracy and economic reform abroad. In 1992–93, he was the first Western economics lecturer at the National University of Economics in Czechoslovakia. Murphy has been named to Washingtonian magazine’s Most Influential List from 2021 to 2024. He holds degrees from the University of Colorado at Boulder and Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. He serves on several international trade boards and is fluent in Spanish.
TW Shannon Senior Advisor to the Secretary for Rural Prosperity – USDA
T.W. Shannon is a dynamic leader with a broad background in business, public service, and
community engagement. He formerly served as CEO of Chickasaw Community Bank in Oklahoma City, where he helped grow the bank’s assets to over $215 million. Prior to his business career, Shannon made history in public service as the first Chickasaw and first African American Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, becoming the youngest Speaker in the nation at age 34.
Shannon’s legislative achievements include overhauling Oklahoma’s (Cont.)
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