Rajendra (Raj) K. Dheer

Raj Dheer is a senior international trade executive with over two decades of experience in commercial diplomacy, export administration, and cross-border business development at the U.S. Department of Commerce. He served as a Foreign Commercial Service Officer across four diplomatic postings — India, Spain, Indonesia, and Canada — where he led American commercial operations and advised hundreds of U.S. and foreign companies on market entry, joint ventures, trade finance, and investment strategy.

Earlier in his career, Raj served as Division Director for Computers, Software, and Telecommunications at the Commerce Department's Bureau of Export Administration, where he established the U.S. Supercomputer Licensing Regime and represented the United States in strategic technology control negotiations with COCOM partners across Europe and Asia — covering supercomputers, robotics, and early artificial intelligence systems.

Prior to government service, Raj held senior engineering and management positions at IBM, Westinghouse Defense Electronics, Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd., and Bailey Controls — bringing a technical foundation that informs his understanding of technology transfer, strategic export controls, and industrial partnerships.

He holds an MBA from Johns Hopkins University, an M.S. in Materials Science from Carnegie Mellon University, an M.A.Sc. in Process Engineering from the University of Toronto, and a B.Tech (Honors) in Metallurgical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay. He speaks Hindi natively and Spanish professionally, and held a Top Secret/SCI security clearance from the U.S. Department of Commerce.