Adam Frost

Adam Frost is the former senior vice president for the China and Transformational Exports Program at the Export-Import Bank of the United States. In less than 3 years he helped turn an unclear mandate into a cumulative $3B+ in lending against the Bank’s China competition mandate. He proudly helped level the playing field for U.S. exporters around the world and laid the groundwork for EXIM’s first 5G and critical minerals transactions. Adam was previously the Director of the Office of Commercial and Economic Analysis (OCEA), an Air Force innovation that advanced solutions to commercial and economic risks to national security years before the topic became mainstream. He led OCEA after serving as the Deputy Division Chief of the Joint Staff Studies, Analysis and Gaming Division where he regularly facilitated wargames at the Principals- and Deputies-Committees levels. Concurrently, Adam serves as a China Foreign Area Officer in the U.S.  Army Reserve. LTC Frost has supported Defense Attaché Offices around the world. As an infantry officer he led a National Guard Rifle Platoon to Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2007 and was fortunate to command two infantry companies before becoming a Foreign Area Officer. Adam holds an MA in international security from Georgetown University and an MA in U.S. history from Brandeis University, is a graduate of the Johns-Hopkins-Nanjing University Center for Sino-U.S. Relations, and he speaks Mandarin Chinese. He is currently the Managing Director of Innovation for Equivoke, LLC, a consulting agency focused on cognitive security.