James Patterson

Accomplished Economist with a proven track record at the US Department of State, adept in policy analysis and public speaking. Excelled in influencing stakeholders, forecasting market trends, and enhancing macroeconomic models. Renowned for translating complex economic data into actionable insights, significantly contributing to national economic benchmarks and fostering international trade understanding.

Recipient Awards US Departments of State, Commerce, Agriculture.

Commerce Department Baldrige Award 1986

Contributor to Foreign Service Journal

Contributor World Grain

Contributor agribusiness newsletters, magazines, and sections of newspapers.

• Collaborated with an Interagency team of economists in the development of rice sales to Japan, wheat sales to Brazil, wheat sales to Russia and China.

• Life member American Foreign Service Assoc.
• Life Member Auburn University Alumni Assoc.
• Alumnus Fraternity of Alpha Zeta
• Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
• Member Agricultural History Society
• Member Gerald R, Ford Presidential Foundation
• Life member Republican National Committee
• Advisory Member D.C. Republican Party
• Member U,S, Philippines Soicety
• U.S. Bahrain Friendship Society

U.S. Diplomat

My father, a Korean War veteran, served with Alabama's Army National Guard for the 1963 integration of the Univ. of Alabama at Tuscaloosa and for the 1965 March from Selma to Montgomery led by Dr. martin Luther King, Jr. I was cast as a reporter in 2014's "Selma." I have written more than 1,000 articles about my family experience in Alabama during the Civil Rights struggle.

My journalism, essays, op/eds appear in Washington Post, Foreign Service Journal, New York Daily News, Philadelphia Inquirer, New York Times, Des Moines Register, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Indianapolis Star, Christian Science Monitor, Bloomsbury Review, New York Episcopalian, The Writer, San Francisco Chronicle, Concord (NH) Monitor, Pueblo (CO) Chieftain, The Hill, The Hill Online, Federal Times, Washington Times, San Francisco Examiner, (San Francisco) Bay Area Reporter, Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide (HGLRW), Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide Online, (Raleigh) News and Observer, (Florida) Sun Sentinel, Writer's Digest, Agricultural History, The Agricultural Education Magazine, American Writer, National Guard Magazine, Las Vegas Review Journal, Washington Blade, Social Science Computer Review, Atlanta Journal, many more.