{"id":509,"date":"2013-03-20T15:30:40","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T15:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conferences.la.utexas.edu\/texaseusummit\/?p=509"},"modified":"2014-04-10T18:56:47","modified_gmt":"2014-04-10T18:56:47","slug":"ben-ramirez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conferences.la.utexas.edu\/texaseusummit\/2013\/03\/20\/ben-ramirez\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Ramirez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/conferences.la.utexas.edu\/texaseusummit\/files\/2013\/03\/Ramirez-Ben.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1029\" alt=\"Ramirez, Ben\" src=\"http:\/\/conferences.la.utexas.edu\/texaseusummit\/files\/2013\/03\/Ramirez-Ben.jpg\" width=\"119\" height=\"131\" \/><\/a>International Economic Development Manager<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em\">City of Austin<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ben Ramirez is responsible for the City of Austin\u2019s governmental initiatives\u00a0for projects involving international economic development and foreign direct\u00a0investment. His duties include creating, coordinating and managing the City\u00a0of Austin&#8217;s global economic development strategic plan with division staff\u00a0and partner organizations. This strategic plan received a Gold Excellence in\u00a0Economic Development Award in the category of Responding to Globalization\u00a0from the International Economic Development Council (IEDC) in 2013.\u00a0Drawing from professional experience earned in the public and private sectors,\u00a0Ben has assisted international business expansion efforts in the North American\u00a0Free Trade Agreement region and around the world.\u00a0Ben has a BA in Philosophy and Political Science from the University of\u00a0Michigan, and a JD from the University of Toledo. He is an associate member of\u00a0the Texas Camino Real District Export Council; a board member of CleanTX and\u00a0the Austin Latino Music Association; Secretary of the Board for Central Texas\u00a0Foreign Trade Zone #183; external advisory board member of the Center for\u00a0European Studies; and Vice President of the World Affairs Council of Austin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acting Economic Development Manager, City of Austin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-people","post_format-post-format-quote","entry"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"grid-thumbnail":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"sd2257","author_link":"https:\/\/conferences.la.utexas.edu\/texaseusummit\/author\/sd2257\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Acting Economic Development Manager, City of Austin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.la.utexas.edu\/texaseusummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.la.utexas.edu\/texaseusummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.la.utexas.edu\/texaseusummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.la.utexas.edu\/texaseusummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.la.utexas.edu\/texaseusummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.la.utexas.edu\/texaseusummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.la.utexas.edu\/texaseusummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions\/1028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.la.utexas.edu\/texaseusummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.la.utexas.edu\/texaseusummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.la.utexas.edu\/texaseusummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}