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Mark Petry
Deputy Administrator
Foreign Affairs
USDA - Foreign Agricultural Service

Mark Petry has served as the Deputy Administrator of the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) Foreign Affairs program area since May 2023 (Director General of the FAS Foreign Service). Prior to that, Mark served as the Managing Director and Deputy Director General from 2021-2023. Mark Petry is a career Foreign Service Officer and was the Chief of the Agriculture Section of the American Institute in Taiwan from 2017-2021. Mark was Acting Director and Deputy Director of the New Technologies and Production Methods Division in FAS from 2010-2017. He also served as an Agricultural Attaché in Beijing (2006-2010) and in Moscow (2002-2005). Mark is an Indiana native with a wife and two children. He graduated from Purdue University with a bachelor’s in Environmental Science and a master’s in Agricultural Economics, as well as a master’s in Food Safety from Michigan State University.

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