With a career that has spanned four continents, Christina Sharkey champions the causes of increasing American prosperity through promotion of U.S. exports, encouraging foreign investment into the United States, and protection of U.S. business interests through trade policy. She joined the team at the U.S. Embassy in Prague in August 2018.
Prior to her assignment in the Czech Republic, Christina most recently held the position of Principal Commercial Officer in Munich, Germany where she led a robust SelectUSA program alongside a dynamic trade promotion staff. She also promoted American commercial interests at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, Egypt and the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, China.
She spent three years in San Francisco, California at the U.S. Export Assistance Center where she focused primarily on the fascinating Biotechnology industry, leading the first-ever biotech trade mission to China in 2010. It was in the Bay Area that Christina developed a love for entrepreneurship, and has since eagerly worked with startups on both sides of the Atlantic to increase business opportunities for creative risk-takers. She started her career in trade working as an operations specialist first for Commerce offices in South Asia and later for offices in North Africa and the Levant.
Christina holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Affairs and Russian from James Madison University and a Master of Public Administration from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. She speaks Czech, German and French, while having also studied Mandarin Chinese, Russian and Slovak.
Prior to her assignment in the Czech Republic, Christina most recently held the position of Principal Commercial Officer in Munich, Germany where she led a robust SelectUSA program alongside a dynamic trade promotion staff. She also promoted American commercial interests at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, Egypt and the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, China.
She spent three years in San Francisco, California at the U.S. Export Assistance Center where she focused primarily on the fascinating Biotechnology industry, leading the first-ever biotech trade mission to China in 2010. It was in the Bay Area that Christina developed a love for entrepreneurship, and has since eagerly worked with startups on both sides of the Atlantic to increase business opportunities for creative risk-takers. She started her career in trade working as an operations specialist first for Commerce offices in South Asia and later for offices in North Africa and the Levant.
Christina holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Affairs and Russian from James Madison University and a Master of Public Administration from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. She speaks Czech, German and French, while having also studied Mandarin Chinese, Russian and Slovak.