Marie Kissel

Marie Kissel serves as a senior advisor, government affairs, at Abbott. Kissel was based in Tokyo and led government affairs activities in Asia for Abbott from 2013-20, as VP, Asia government affairs and as a senior advisor. Prior to Abbott, she was VP, government affairs and public policy, Asia Pacific, for Baxter International, based in Shanghai from 2006-13. Kissel has also held various government affairs and trade policy roles in the automotive industry, primarily with DaimlerChrysler, in Washington, D.C., and Singapore. She started her career at the U.S. Department of Commerce in the International Trade Administration`s Office of Antidumping Investigations, followed by the Office of Japan. Kissel serves as an international director on the SME Board of Directors and is a board member of the National Center for APEC and the Japan-America Society of Washington, D.C. She also chairs AdvaMed’s Japan Reimbursement Working Group. Kissel served as vice president, American Chamber of Commerce in Japan from 2015-20 and was appointed advisor to the Board of the American Medical Device and Diagnostics Manufacturers Association from 2019-20. She served on the Board of Governors of the American Chamber of Commerce Shanghai from 2011-13 and on the Board of AmCham Singapore. From 2018-19, Kissel was chairperson of the Asia Pacific Council of the American Chambers of Commerce. She attended Sophia University’s Year-in-Japan Program as an undergraduate and holds a bachelor’s degree in government/international affairs and Japanese Language from University of Notre Dame, and an MBA from the Thunderbird School of Global Management, Arizona State University. SME Member Since 2021.