Frank Lavin

Lavin is from Ohio and graduated from Phillips Academy Andover in 1975.{{Cite web |title=An epic American life |url=https://www.andover.edu/news/2021/an-epic-american-life |access-date=2023-12-05 |website=Andover {{!}} An independent and inclusive coed boarding high school |language=en-US}} He later earned a B.S. from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University; a M.S. in Chinese language from Georgetown University; a M.A. in International Relations and International Economics from the School of Advanced International Studies at the Johns Hopkins University; and an MBA in Finance at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

As Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, Lavin headed the International Trade Administration for the United States Department of Commerce from 2005 until 2007.{{cite news |url= http://www.ita.doc.gov/media/PressReleases/1005/lavin_102805.html |title= Gutierrez lauds Senate for voting to confirm Franklin L. Lavin as Under Secretary for International Trade |author= United States Department of Commerce press release |work= ITA.doc.gov |date= October 28, 2005 |access-date= August 10, 2007 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20060927055200/http://www.ita.doc.gov/media/PressReleases/1005/lavin_102805.html |archive-date= September 27, 2006 |url-status= dead }}{{cite web |url= http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,157744.shtml |title= International Cover: Global Education: The Race is On |author= Newsweek Press Release |work= Earth Times |date= 12 August 2007 }}

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From August 2001 to 2005, Lavin served as the United States Ambassador to Singapore.{{cite web |url= http://trade.gov/press/bios/lavin.asp |title= Franklin L. Lavin, Undersecretary for International Trade |author= Biography |work= ITA.gov |access-date= 2007-08-10 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070811023156/http://trade.gov/press/bios/lavin.asp |archive-date= 2007-08-11 |url-status= dead }}

As of September 2001, Lavin is an officer in the United States Navy's reserve.{{cite web|url=http://2001-2009.state.gov/outofdate/bios/l/4810.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090206101426/http://2001-2009.state.gov/outofdate/bios/l/4810.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 6, 2009|title=Lavin, Frank L.|date=September 5, 2001|access-date=February 6, 2009|publisher=United States Department of State}}

A 2005 report by the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of State praised Lavin's leadership in this position, calling him "a strong leader with a high degree of intellectual curiosity who wants to be kept well-briefed by all agencies, and yet lets people do their jobs without micromanaging".{{cite report|title=Report of Inspection: Embassy Singapore|year=2005|publisher=Office of the Inspector General of the Department of State|url=http://oig.state.gov/documents/organization/126685.pdf|pages=8|accessdate=2009-08-24}}

From 2011 to 2023, Lavin served as CEO of Export Now,{{cite web|url=https://www.exportnow.com/|title=Home|website=Export Now}} a company dedicated to helping consumer brands sell their products in China.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/18/business/smallbusiness/when-plan-to-help-others-sell-in-china-fails-start-up-changes-targets.html|title=When Plan to Help Others Sell in China Fails, a Start-Up Changes Tack|first=John|last=Grossmann|newspaper=The New York Times |date=17 September 2014}}

In August 2016, Lavin endorsed Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.{{cite web |url= https://edition.cnn.com/2016/08/07/opinions/reagan-republican-trump-no-clothes-lavin/index.html |title= Reagan Republican: Trump is the emperor with no clothes |author= Frank Lavin |work= CNN |date= 7 August 2016 }}Murphy, Mike (February 19, 2019) [http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RadioFreeGop/~3/pDxXpgnE1_s/RFG_0021.mp3 "Amazon Crime, Art of the Surrender and Globe Trotting with Amb. Frank Lavin"], [http://feeds.feedburner.com/RadioFreeGop Radio Free GOP With Mike Murphy]

In 2020, Lavin, along with over 130 other former Republican national security officials, signed a statement that asserted that President Trump was unfit to serve another term, and "To that end, we are firmly convinced that it is in the best interest of our nation that Vice President Joe Biden be elected as the next President of the United States, and we will vote for him."{{cite web |url=https://www.defendingdemocracytogether.org/national-security/ |title=Former Republican National Security Officials for Biden |date=20 August 2020 |website=Defending Democracy Together |access-date=26 August 2021}}

Frank Lavin and his wife Ann (née Wortley) have been married since November 29, 1980.{{cite web |url= http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=21935 |title= Remembering Rove |author= John Gizzi |work= Human Events |date= 14 August 2007 |access-date= 15 August 2007 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070815092250/http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=21935 |archive-date= 15 August 2007 |url-status= dead }} They have three children. His father was a soldier in World War II.

• Lavin, Frank, and Henry Kissinger. Home Front to Battlefront: An Ohio Teenager in World War II. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2017. {{ISBN|9780821445921}}

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