Nat Turner
Economic Counsellor at U.S. Embassy Kuala Lumpur
Nat Turner is a Foreign Service Officer at the U.S. Department of State. In 2016, Nat arrived to Kuala Lumpur as Economic Counselor where his team will manage Trans-Pacific Partnership implementation and other trade initiatives, energy cooperation, environmental cooperation, and economic activities related to ASEAN and APEC. Prior to arriving in Kuala Lumpur, he served in Brasilia as Deputy Economic Counselor including a year as Acting Economic Counselor.
Other overseas assignments have included Hong Kong and Cairo. Washington based assignments include the Department of State’s Economics Bureau in the Bilateral Trade Office where he had responsibility for the South and Central Asia trade portfolio, the East Asian and Pacific Affairs Bureau as Desk Officer for Singapore and Brunei, and an assignment to USAID’s Latin America and Caribbean Bureau in the Broad Based Economic Growth Office where he worked on food security and financial sector reform.
Prior to joining the Foreign Service, Nat worked for a decade in marketing and management positions in the consumer products, technology, and banking industries. Nat earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Duke University and completed a Finance and Marketing Executive Education course at the Wharton School of Business. Nat is married with one child.