Melissa Proffitt Reese, partner at Ice Miller LLP, is one of the business and community leaders participating in Governor Mitch Daniels' trade and investment mission to Asia September 5-16, 2009. The trip includes the first economic development mission to China by an Indiana governor in more than a decade. The governor also will make economic development stops in Japan--his fourth visit to the country since 2005.
Melissa's daily blog will provide insight on the trip, including a look at Asian culture.
More than 42,000 Hoosiers are employed by the more than 200 Japanese companies in the state with investments of more than $9.8 billion. Daniels hopes to see modest Chinese investment in the state parallel the growth of Japanese investment in the future.
The cost of the state delegation is being covered entirely through private donations to the Indiana Economic Development Foundation and utilizes no tax dollars.
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