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David Day is one of the Indo-Pacific Region’s leading international legal practitioners, with special emphasis on Asia and the Pacific Islands. He is based out of Hawaii.
A number of the projects David is engaged in necessarily include geopolitical issues between the United States, China, and selected Asian allies. He has also been involved in the development and conduct of capacity-building programs to bolster national security with American allies in Asia as well as project funding for capacity-building projects in Southeast Asia.
Mr. Day is also the Chairman of the American Bar Association’s Belt & Road Task Force which deals with complex issues that run the gamut from international business & trade, needed hard and digital infrastructure development of smaller & poorer nations, geopolitics, corruption, espionage and national security. He is the architect and senior faculty director for the International section of the American Bar Association’s 7-part global webinar series on China and China’s Belt & Road in 2020-21.
In recent months, David has conducted a number of global programs and webinars along with detailed briefings and speeches on current U.S. Trade Policy, the South China Sea challenge with China, the rise of radical Islam in Southeast Asia, China’s Belt & Road Initiative and its Digital Silk Road, the U.S. Indo-Pacific Strategy/the U.S. China Relationship. A number of these briefings have been before Asian Cabinet-level Ministers, think tanks, diplomatic teams at U.S. and Asian Embassies and Consulates along with private sector business groups and conferences in both the U.S and Asia.
Mr. Day is the Co-Chairman of the Trade Policy Committee of the U.S. National Association of District Export Councils and a member of its National Board of Directors, representing the entire Pacific Region and the Southwestern U.S.
In addition to active legal practice, David is also a Founding Director and the Chairman of the Board of the Global Risk Mitigation Foundation (GRMF). The Hawaii based 501(c)3 Foundation is focused on education-focused holistic risk assessments and solutions for businesses, NGOs, and government entities. Mr. Day is also the Chairman of International Risk Management, Inc. a risk consultancy.
As a private citizen, David was instrumental in the brokering of the first public discussions on the subject of economic normalization among several U.S. Ambassadors and Vietnamese Ministers in early 1997 which led to the initial, Bilateral Trade Agreement draft between the U.S. and Vietnam.
David is also an experienced educator and has taught lawyers as well as Executive, ExecMBA and MBA candidates along with senior military, security professionals and diplomats on various international business and legal topics.
As a U.S. business lawyer, Mr. Day has been on the ground extensively throughout the Indo-Pacific Region in deal-structuring and negotiations and is currently involved in a variety of commercial projects in Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Singapore, China and Japan.