A Breakfast Briefing By Camille E. Sailer Regional Senior Commercial Officer U.S. Department of Commerce Brussels, Belgium Wednesday, February 28, 2007 8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast 8:30 - 9:30 a.m. Briefing and Discussion Executive Offices, Suite 2900, WTC (Free validated parking in the WTC Garage)	Note: Following the breakfast briefing, Ms. Sailer will be available for individual consultations.

Why Belgium?

• Belgium is the Gateway to Europe
   
• 70% of EU purchasing power is within a 400-mile radius of Brussels
   
• All European markets can be served within 24 hours - once in the Benelux, goods may transit freely throughout the entire EU
   
• Excellent infrastructure specifically geared to re-export and transportation of goods, people and electronic data, resulting in a greater need and receptivity towards imports
   
• Highly-qualified and educated, multilingual workforce
   
• Ideal test market: small, diverse, and cosmopolitan with international infrastructure
   
• Brussels features Europe’s fastest air-cargo handling and distribution center, with a capacity of 514,000 tons 
   
• Brussels is also home to the European Commission, NATO and many other international organizations. Some 2,000 international corporations, 1,300 of them American 
   
• The port of Antwerp is the second-largest port in Europe connecting over 1,500 miles of waterways to all major industrial regions in Europe.

Camille Sailer took up her duties as Regional Commercial Counselor representing Commercial Service Belgium and Luxembourg in August 2002 advocating for U.S. business interests in markets critically important to American companies. In her position as Commercial Counselor, Ms. Sailer is responsible for management of a complex and high profile program, counseling U.S. investors and promoting American exports to the Belgian and Luxembourg markets.

From 1995 - 2002, Ms. Sailer served as Commercial Counselor at the American Embassy in Seoul where she formulated trade policy and market access measures to assist American firms obtain a foothold in the tough Korean market.

From May 1991 - 1995, Ms. Sailer served in Stuttgart, Germany as Principal Commercial Officer and Consul at the American Consulate General, where she played a key role in expanding the presence of American companies in the complex regulatory environment represented by the German market.

Before her assignment to Stuttgart, Ms. Sailer spent nine years in Seoul when she first served with the American Embassy advising U.S. firms regarding investment problems and market access. Prior to that time, she served as a Foreign Service Officer with the Department of State at the American Embassy in Buenos Aires and Seoul and then as a legal advisor with a Korean international law firm. Ms. Sailer also has taught business and trade law as visiting professor for the University of Maryland.

Ms. Sailer comes from the Philadelphia area and is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar. She is a summa cum laude graduate of Lafayette College and received her law degree from Villanova University. She also attended the University of Madrid where she received a degree in Spanish studies summa cum laude. Her languages are German, Spanish, French and Korean, and Dutch. She enjoys many sports and has a third-degree black belt in taekwondo.