SIA STAFF : B. Anne Craib

B. Anne Craib is the Director of Market Research, International Affairs and Finance for the Semiconductor Industry Association. In that capacity, she is responsible for managing the association’s finances, statistical and international affairs programs.

During Ms. Craib’s tenure working for the SIA, the Association’s international trade program has included the negotiation and implementation of the 1996 U.S.-Japan semiconductor trade agreement and a 1999 multilateral agreement with Japan, Europe, Korea and Taiwan as a follow-on to the 1996 U.S.-Japan agreement. Ms. Craib worked on securing the elimination of European and Korean semiconductor tariffs under the Information Technology Agreement (ITA), which saved U.S. chipmakers and their European customers $1.5 billion over two years, and the elimination of tariffs on Multi-Chip ICs in the largest semiconductor markets in the world in 2006.

Ms. Craib is the Vice Chairman of the Department of Commerce/United States Trade Representative Industry Trade Advisory Committee on high technology products, and she chairs the executive committee of the US Information Technology Office (USITO) – a multi-association partnership representing the US high technology industry in Beijing.

She has an undergraduate degree in economics and Asian studies from the University of California at Berkeley, a Master in Pacific International Affairs from the University of California at San Diego, and a Master in Business Administration from the Haas School at the University of California at Berkeley. Before joining the SIA in 1997, Ms. Craib worked at Dewey Ballantine LLP as the Washington-based manager of SIA’s lobbying activities. She also previously held the position of Government Relations Analyst for the Japan Economic Institute. She is a Fellow of the U.S.-Japan Leadership Program and a member of the Pacific Council.