Kunal Khatri is the UK’s Acting HM Trade Commissioner for the USA, based at the British Consulate General in New York City. In this role he leads a cross-USA team to deliver new trade and investment opportunities across all economic sectors by helping UK firms export to and enter the market, and support US firms to invest into UK.

Prior to this he spent five years at the British Embassy Beijing as the UK’s Minister-Counsellor & Director for Financial and Professional Services, and seven years at HM Treasury on financial services, international economics and as Ministerial speechwriter. Kunal has also worked at the World Bank, United Nations and The Economist Newspaper. Kunal graduated from Oxford University and the London School of Economics, and speaks fluent Mandarin.