undermine United States interests in hav-
ing robust and growing African countries 
with which to foster enduring economic 
and political partnerships. 
SEC. 3. PURPOSES. 
The purposes of this Act are to— 
(1) advance the mutual interests of the United 
States and Africa with respect to the promotion of 
trade and investment and the advancement of socio-
economic development and opportunity, and to inte-
grate and create interagency, whole-of-government 
synergies within United States efforts to achieve 
these goals; 
(2) foster United States trade with and invest-
ment in Africa that is more sectorally diverse, of in-
creased economic value, and grounded in free market 
principles; 
(3) foster United States private, public-private 
partnership, and other investments in Africa that 
hold the potential to both generate positive economic 
effects and result in improvements in public infra-
structure, health, education, and economic competi-
tiveness, and efforts to fulfill the Millennium Devel-
opment Goals in African countries; 
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(4) deepen United States-African economic, 
technical, and social and cultural ties, in particular 
with respect to those between the peoples of Africa 
and the members of the African Diaspora in the 
United States, United States and African civil soci-
ety groups, and small- and medium-sized business 
enterprises; and 
(5) facilitate the mutual transfer and exchange 
of business, technical, and academic expertise be-
tween Africa and the United States, in particular by 
encouraging and facilitating the engagement and in-
volvement of members of the African Diaspora in 
the United States, among other United States citi-
zens with ties to or interests in Africa, in the 
achievement of such goals. 
SEC. 4. SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR UNITED STATES- 
AFRICA TRADE, DEVELOPMENT, AND DIAS-
PORA AFFAIRS, AND RELATED MATTERS. 
(a) 
SPECIAL
REPRESENTATIVE
FOR
UNITED 
STATES-AFRICA TRADE, DEVELOPMENT, AND DIASPORA 
AFFAIRS.—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
the President shall appoint a Special Representative for 
United States-Africa Trade, Development, and Diaspora 
Affairs within the Department of State (in this Act re-
ferred to as the ‘‘Special Representative’’) not later than 
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180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act. The 
Special Representative should be a person of distinction, 
culturally sensitive to the underserved African Diaspora 
in the United States, with substantial experience in mat-
ters of trade or economic development and in matters re-
lating to African Diaspora relations with Africa. 
(b) OFFICE OF UNITED STATES-AFRICA TRADE, DE-
VELOPMENT, AND DIASPORA AFFAIRS.—Not later than 
180 days after the date of the appointment of the Special 
Representative pursuant to subsection (a), the Secretary 
of State shall establish, within the Department of State, 
the Office of United States-Africa Trade, Development, 
and Diaspora Affairs (in this Act referred to as the ‘‘Of-
fice’’). The Special Representative shall serve as the head 
of the Office, and shall guide and direct the work of Office 
staff. 
(c) REGIONAL CENTERS.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days 
after the date of the establishment of the Office pur-
suant to subsection (b), the Special Representative 
shall establish 5 regional United States-Africa 
Trade, Development, and Diaspora Affairs public 
outreach, education, and liaison centers (in this Act 
referred to as ‘‘centers’’), in a manner to be deter-
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mined by the Secretary of State and in accordance 
with the requirements described in paragraph (2). 
(2) REQUIREMENTS.—The requirements re-
ferred to in paragraph (1) are the following: 
(A) A center shall be established in each of 
the Northeastern, Southern, Plains and Mid-
western, Western, and Northwestern regions of 
the continental United States in order to serve 
the population of each such region. 
(B) Each center shall serve a population 
that is roughly equal in number to the popu-
lation served by each of the other centers. 
(C) Each center shall be located in the city 
within each region that has the highest number 
of members of the African Diaspora in the re-
gion. 
(D) The territory for which the Western 
center has responsibility shall include Hawaii 
and the territory for which the Northwestern 
center has responsibility shall include Alaska. 
(d) DUTIES, RESPONSIBILITIES, AND FUNCTIONS.— 
The Special Representative and the Office shall promote 
United States-African trade and investment relations and 
foster socioeconomic development and economic growth, 
by— 
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(1) coordinating and convening a permanent 
interagency United States-Africa Trade and Devel-
opment Consultative Action Group (in this Act re-
ferred to as the ‘‘Group’’), which shall include rep-
resentatives from— 
(A) the Office of the United States Trade 
Representative; 
(B) the Trade and Development Agency; 
(C) the Overseas Private Investment Cor-
poration; 
(D) the Export-Import Bank of the United 
States; 
(E) the United States Agency for Inter-
national Development; 
(F) the Millennium Challenge Corporation; 
(G) the Department of Agriculture; 
(H) the Department of Commerce; 
(I) the Department of Energy; 
(J) the Small Business Administration; 
(K) the Department of Defense; 
(L) other Federal departments and agen-
cies, to be determined by the Special Represent-
ative, in consultation with members of the 
Group described in subparagraphs (A) through 
(K), on a temporary, permanent, or project-lim-
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ited basis, based on the technical, pro-
grammatic, fiscal, legal, or other needs or objec-
tives of the Group and its activities; and 
(M) within the context of applied projects 
undertaken by Group ad hoc project commit-
tees, as described in subsection (e), State and 
local governments, nongovernmental organiza-
tions, public-private partnership entities, private 
businesses, and private foundations; 
(2) designing and implementing public out-
reach, education, and liaison programs and activities 
intended to foster United States-African economic, 
technical, social, and cultural ties, in particular with 
respect to— 
(A) building and enhancing relationships 
between the peoples of Africa and the African 
Diaspora, United States and African civil soci-
ety groups, and small- and medium-sized busi-
ness enterprises in the United States and Afri-
ca; and 
(B) increasing the participation of mem-
bers of the African Diaspora and other minority 
groups in the United States in United States 
trade, investment, and development assistance 
programs relating to Africa; 
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(3) facilitating and increasing the number of 
international learning exchange, professional, train-
ing, and educational programs between Africa and 
the United States, in particular programs intended 
to promote trade, economic growth, or socioeconomic 
development, including through coordination with 
the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and 
the Special Representative for Global Intergovern-
mental Affairs of the Department of State; 
(4) establishing a publicly accessible database 
and information exchange mechanism through which 
United States and African business, technical, and 
academic experts, associations, and other institutions 
and organizations can establish and expand profes-
sional ties, network, and undertake mutual ex-
changes of knowledge and expertise related to busi-
ness and economic development and, in particular, 
provide means for members of the African Diaspora 
in the United States to transfer information, skills, 
and expertise to their counterparts in Africa or to 
help build the technical and professional capacities 
of African economic and development institutions; 
and 
(5) liaising and consulting with African govern-
ments, the African Union, African intergovernmental 
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subregional organizations, public-private partnership 
entities, private businesses, nongovernmental organi-
zations, private foundations, and United Nations 
agencies with respect to matters of Africa-related 
trade, economic development, and African-African 
Diaspora relations, in order to determine— 
(A) African trade and economic develop-
ment priorities; 
(B) the nature and scope of investments 
being made by African governments, private 
sector actors, and other international donors; 
and 
(C) strategies for effectively channeling 
and leveraging United States trade promotion, 
capacity-building, and development resources 
and coordinating such resources with invest-
ments from other sources. 
(e) OTHER MATTERS RELATING TO DUTIES, RE-
SPONSIBILITIES, AND FUNCTIONS.— 
(1) OF THE GROUP.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding their 
individual agency mandates and activities, 
members of the Group shall design and propose 
integrated, whole-of-government approaches for 
achieving United States Government trade and 
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development policy and program objectives as 
they relate to Africa, and agency members of 
the Group shall collaboratively design and im-
plement specific applied projects and programs 
to achieve these objectives in practice, on an 
interagency basis, wherever fiscally, technically, 
programmatically, or legally advantageous, fea-
sible, and permissible. 
(B) AD
HOC
PROJECT-RELATED
GROUP 
COMMITTEES.—The Special Representative may 
coordinate and convene, as necessary, ad hoc 
project-related Group committees, made up of 2 
or more members of the Group, to define and 
guide the execution of interagency projects un-
dertaken by members of an ad hoc project-re-
lated Group committee. 
(C) MEETINGS.—The Group shall meet in 
plenary on a quarterly basis, at a minimum, or 
more frequently, as necessary, and at the ad 
hoc project-related Group committee level, as 
frequently as necessary. 
(D) REPORTS.—Members of the Group 
shall regularly provide the Special Representa-
tive detailed information, data, reports, and 
other material pertaining to current or prospec-
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tive projects related to their agency or depart-
ment trade and development initiatives in Afri-
ca, and the Office shall make these reports 
available to all members of the Group and to 
Congress in a centrally, Internet-accessible dig-
ital database repository. 
(2) OF THE OFFICE.—The Office shall review 
the information, data, reports, and other material 
submitted by members of the Group, and shall pro-
pose to members of the Group, where fiscally, tech-
nically, programmatically, or legally advantageous, 
feasible, and permissible, ways of integrating, link-
ing, or leveraging Group member agency investments 
and projects that incorporate shared or similar ob-
jectives and, in particular, projects that simulta-
neously foster trade or economic growth, and socio-
economic development. 
(3) OF THE SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE.—The 
Special Representative may request and shall receive 
in a timely manner any documents or data, whether 
in an electronic, paper, or other format, from any 
member of the Group pertaining to any Africa-re-
lated trade or development-related project with 
which the member is involved or is funding or facili-
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tating, with the exception of contractually or 
proprietorialy protected documents. 
(4) OF REGIONAL CENTERS.—The activities of 
regional centers shall support all duties, responsibil-
ities, and functions of the Special Representative 
and of the Office, but shall principally focus on the 
objectives set out in paragraphs (2), (3), and (4) of 
subsection (d). 
(f) STAFF.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Special Representative 
shall, from among individuals described in para-
graph (2), hire staff as appropriate to carry out this 
section. 
(2) QUALIFICATIONS.—Individuals described in 
this paragraph are individuals who— 
(A) are United States citizens; 
(B) have a strong knowledge of Africa; 
(C) have a strong knowledge of United 
States-African relations; and 
(D) are fluent in English and are pro-
ficient or fluent in one of the national non-
indigenous official languages spoken in Africa, 
including Spanish, French, or Portuguese, or 
one or more indigenous official languages. 
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SEC. 5. REPORT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after the 
date of the enactment of this Act and annually thereafter 
for 4 years, the President shall submit to Congress a re-
port on the implementation of this Act. 
(b) MATTERS TO BE INCLUDED.—The report re-
quired under subsection (a) shall— 
(1) describe the impact of this Act on trade, in-
vestment, and job creation in the United States and 
Africa and the impact of the role of the African Di-
aspora in the United States in improving United 
States-Africa trade relations and economic develop-
ment progress in Africa; and 
(2) include recommendations regarding possible 
changes to the duties, responsibilities, and functions 
of the Special Representative, the Office, and the 
Group, and other related recommendations as they 
pertain to strategies for effectively implementing 
whole-of-government and interagency approaches to 
achieving United States Government trade and de-
velopment policy and program objectives as they re-
late to Africa. 
SEC. 6. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(a) AFRICAN DIASPORA.—The term ‘‘African Dias-
pora’’ means the peoples of African descent living outside 
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Africa, irrespective of their citizenship and nationality, 
who are willing to contribute to the development of Africa. 
(b) AFRICA.—The term ‘‘Africa’’ refers to the entire 
continent of Africa, including the countries of Comoros, 
Madagascar, and Seychelles. 
SEC. 7. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out 
this Act $5,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2011 
through 2015. 
Æ 
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