Gina Raimondo
Secretary of Commerce
Gina Marie Raimondo was born in May 1971 in Smithfield, Rhode Island. She earned an undergraduate degree from Harvard College. She attended New College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar, where she received a Master of Arts degree and Doctor of Philosophy. She received a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School. She clerked at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. She worked as a venture capitalist and investment executive.
She was elected General Treasurer of Rhode Island where she served four years. She worked for the Democratic Governors Association as its chairman and was elected Governor of Rhode Island. She was concluding her tenure there when she was nominated by President Joe Biden to be Secretary of Commerce. She was confirmed by the Senate in an 84-15 vote and assumed office March 3, 2021.
Raimondo is married to Andrew Kind Moffitt, and they have two children. She is Catholic.
In the News…
At a meeting in Beijing, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao agreed to establish a working group that would hold meetings twice a year to discuss export controls on microchips and other key products related to the semiconductor industry. They agreed as well that the two lead officials would meet at least once a year in an effort to keep tensions from unexpected escalation.
They also discussed the restrictions China has placed on rare earth mineral exports.
The Commerce Department stated, “Secretary Raimondo reinforced the Administration’s commitment to taking actions necessary to protect U.S. national security and reiterated the Administration’s “small yard, high fence” approach, underscoring that export controls are narrowly targeted at technologies that have clear national security or human rights impacts and are not about containing China’s economic growth.“
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The Honorable Gina Raimondo, Secretary
Department of Commerce
1401 Constitution Ave NW
Washington, DC 20230
