Myron Brilliant
Vice President, East Asia
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
As President for Asia, and Officer of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Myron Brilliant is responsible for developing, promoting, and executing U.S. Chamber programs and policy relating to U.S. trade and investment in the Asia trade arena. In overseeing the U.S. Chamber's work in Asia, Brilliant works with U.S. Chamber members, business coalitions, American Chambers of Commerce abroad (AmCham), the U.S. Government, and foreign governments and businesses.
In his Chamber role, Brilliant focuses heavily on the U.S.- China relationship. In 2001, Brilliant formed the U.S. Chamber's China WTO Implementation Working Group to follow China's efforts to open its market to foreign goods and services. From 1998-2000, he also served as co-chair of the Business Coalition for U.S.-China Trade during the national campaign to secure Congressional support for Permanent Normal Trade Relations with China. The Coalition was comprised of over 1,200 U.S. companies, as well as trade and farm organizations representing the U.S. manufacturing, agriculture, and services sectors. From 1997-2000, Brilliant launched and ran a wide-ranging Chamber grassroots issue advocacy program designed to build support for full normalization of the U.S.-China commercial relationship. The grassroots program included significant outreach to companies of all sizes, state and local chambers of commerce and other organizations across the country.
Brilliant also works on matters impacting U.S. market access into other key Asian markets such as Southeast Asia, Australia, Korea, and Japan. In 1998, Brilliant organized and led a successful business campaign to obtain congressional passage of legislation to provide $18 billion to the International Monetary Fund.
In addition, Brilliant has overall management responsibility for two bilateral business councils. In the spring of 2002, Brilliant assumed the leadership of the U.S. - Korea Business Council, an organization comprised of top executives from U.S. companies with a strong commitment to the Korea market. He also serves as President of the Hong Kong-U.S. Business Council, a private-sector initiative whose mission is to further strengthen and expand ties between the United States and Hong Kong. Council members are chief executives of leading American companies who share an interest in getting more deeply involved in the Hong Kong and China markets.