Deputy Counselor for Commercial Affairs

U. S. Embassy New Delhi

Dale Tasharski began his current assignment as Deputy Counselor for Commercial Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi in July 2006. In this role, he is responsible for the management of more than 55 personnel in seven cities across India, whose job it is to assist U.S. companies to enter and expand in the Indian marketplace. Prior to his current assignment, from 2002 to 2006, Dale was Senior Commercial Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Dublin, Ireland.

A career Foreign Service Officer, Dale joined the U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service in 1985.  Over the past 23 years, he has assisted U.S. companies in assignments in both its overseas and domestic fields.  Prior to his assignment in Dublin, from 1999 to 2002, Dale served as Senior Advisor for Career Development to the Director General of the U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service in Washington, DC.  In this capacity, he was responsible for the management, direction, and integrity of the overseas career development and assignment process for all of the agency's plus-250 Foreign Commercial Service officers.

From 1995 to 1999, Mr. Tasharski served as a Commercial Attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, Japan, where his chief responsibilities included U.S. trade promotion and bilateral trade policy negotiations in automotive, aerospace, and WTO government procurement.  From 1990 to 1994, Dale was a Commercial Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw, Poland.  While there, his office received the Commerce Department's Silver Medal award for their accomplishments in expanding U.S. trade and investment by large and small American companies during an historic time of political and economic change.  Prior to Warsaw, Dale served as an International Trade Specialist in the Commerce Department's U.S. Export Assistance Center in Nashville, Tennessee.  While in Nashville, he organized the first-ever U.S. District Export Council trade mission to what was then the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.

Mr. Tasharski was born and raised near Chicago, Illinois.  He holds a Bachelor’s Degree with Highest Honors in International Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a Master’s in Public and International Affairs from the University of Pittsburgh, where he was recognized for advanced work in Russian and East European security studies.  Through the years, Dale has studied Japanese, Russian, and Polish. 

Dale is married (Laurie) with two children, enjoys golf, and is an avid fly fisherman and a lifelong member of the Chicago Cubs Diehard Fan Club.