Lockett International LLC - CEO James Lockett

James Lockett is an international lawyer and manager.  He is CEO of Lockett International, a U.S. based consultancy with International Trade and Customs Expertise. Services provided include technical assistance and capacity building For Governments and Institutions, as well as associations and companies. Available for Board positions and advisory positions. Specialist in the Digital Economy, and related technology, Blockchain, cloud and Cryptocurrency Issues. Experienced international trade/customs, immigration, business/labor, and investment lawyer and advisor. Seasoned international lawyer, global affairs executive and manager. Thought Leader and conference speaker.

James Lockett's career has spanned work in government service, in private law firms, major multinational companies, as well as in development assistance. Trained as an international lawyer, Mr. Lockett is an American but has lived outside of the U.S. for more than twenty-five years. He worked from 1983 to 1997 in Brussels, Belgium where he was a partner in a major Wall Street international law firm, dealing with an international clientele in Asia, North America, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America. From 1998 to 2005, he was based in Washington, D.C., where he worked as a senior lawyer for the U.S. Government. He then moved to Jakarta, Indonesia to assist the Ministry of Trade for nearly three years. In 2008, he joined the Hanoi, Vietnam office of global law firm Baker & McKenzie.  In 2011, he returned to international development work with USAID by becoming Chief of Party with the ASEAN-U.S. Technical Assistance and Training Facility implemented by Nathan Associates, where he continued his international legal and management practice, working on technical assistance and capacity building at the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta. In 2013, he moved to Shenzhen, China to take a position as Vice President and Head of Market Access and Trade Facilitation with Huawei Technologies, the world's #1 telecom company. He moved in 2018 back to the USA to establish Lockett International LLC, for which he serves as CEO.

Mr. Lockett is listed in Who's Who In Finance and Industry and similar publications, and has been awarded peer excellence awards for over two decades by publications such as Chambers and the International Financial Law Review. In 2014, he was named to the World Economic Forum's Global Advisory Council on Trade and FDI, during which time he contributed to the Council's work on the High and Low Politics of Trade, including his own article on "What Cybersecurity Means for Global Trade." In 2016 he was named to the World Economic Forum Global Futures Council for Trade and Investment. He served as a member of the World Customs Organization Private Sector Consultative Group in 2016-2018. He was educated in both the U.S. and the UK, and holds degrees in political science and in law, and a Masters degree in International Law. He has seasoned management experience also, having been managing partner of a law office in Brussels and leader of several major USAID projects, managing Huawei's global market access and trade facilitation issues, and now as CEO of Lockett International LLC.

Please feel free to join me on various professional or social networks.  I have launched my own TRADE BLOG, and also have a Twitter account, so please feel free to follow my thinking. I have video and vlog content as well as presentations on my Lockett International YouTube channel. You can also join me on LinkedIn or on Facebook.

If you would like to contact me directly, please email me at: james@lockett-intl.com or please call me.

Best regards.

James Lockett

Mobile:  +1-619-405-5321

Skype:   jameslockett

Internet Phone:  +1-509-368-7239