Government & NGOs
We can help you promote your region and attract inward investment

We enable government agencies and NGOs to forge international partnerships, grow exports and attract investment.
Through our established private and public sector networks across Asia, Europe and America, we can generate transformative outcomes faster than anyone.
No assignment is too small, nor too big. From supporting one-off overseas missions to delivering long-term, multi-staged FDI attraction programmes, we've got you covered.
We can quickly deploy in-country teams with the right expertise and connections to deliver on your objectives. Our extensive network will bring the right people to the table, whether it's for a matchmaking event, a trade show pavilion or to negotiate building facilities and creating jobs in your country, state or city.
We also have a deep background in research and report-writing, a sample of which you can find here.
To discuss how we can support your trade and investment strategy, please get in touch below.
Our services
We provide a wide range of services designed to help government agencies and other public sector organisations forge global partnerships, promote trade and attract investment.
FDI attraction
We will help you find international investors. Whether it’s to establish a regional headquarters, R&D facilities or a manufacturing base, we will draw on our extensive networks and commercial experience to entice the best organisations to invest in your country, region or city.
Trade support
We will grow your exports by helping companies in your region understand their priority markets and find local importers and distributors. We will also support companies that want to visit new global markets, undertake marketing campaigns or exhibit at overseas trade shows.
Overseas missions
Through our specialist teams in Asia, Europe and North America, we support government and industry visits to these regions, including trade missions, trade shows, business matchmaking events and VIP visits.
Market reports
We can produce in-depth reports about the hottest topics and opportunities in export markets. See these examples of our reports for government trade bodies.
Intralink has been a dependable partner for the entire embassy, bringing exceptional project execution skills to complex research challenges. Our relationship is highly valuable.
The report is a great piece of work - graphically clean, well-written, and with strong contacts identified.
Everyone was extremely satisfied with their China experience. The Intralink team were invaluable and great to work with.
Leadership

Jonathan Cleave
Jonathan heads up our global government services team. Originally from the UK, he's been based in Korea since 2004. He has helped hundreds of companies across a wide range of sectors to enter the markets of East Asia and he supported Asia-focused trade promotion and FDI attraction programmes for many countries, states and regions .
Jonathan sits on the board of the British Tech Advisors (B.TA), a Singapore-based organisation linking UK technology founders & investors across the Asia Pacific, as well as the British Chamber of Commerce in Korea (BCCK) .

Richard Lyle
Richard heads up our Government & NGOs team in Asia Pacific. He has overseen the trade promotion activities of many US states and Canadian provinces - including Missouri, Washington and Alberta - as well as the national EDOs of Israel, Canada and the Republic of Ireland. He's also the current president of the British Chamber of Commerce in Japan (BCCJ). Prior to Intralink, Richard worked for UK Trade & Investment, helping British companies to develop their business interests in Japan and Japanese companies to expand their operations in the UK.

Micah Hostetter
Micah heads our Governments & NGOs team in North America. He joined Intralink in 2015 and was based in our Shanghai office for more than eight years. During his time in China, he served as the local representative for numerous US states, spearheading their FDI and trade initiatives in the country. He has also led projects for European and APAC EDOs in the region. Micah moved back to the US in 2023 and is located in Virginia.

Alex Gover
Alex leads our Governments & NGOs team in EMEA and has commercial oversight of our all our Europe and Middle East client engagements. As a Japanese speaker, he was formerly based in our Tokyo office where he developed and implemented market expansion strategies across a range of sectors, including semiconductors, telecommunications, and enterprise software. He has worked in and with Asia for the past 30 years.
Client stories
FDI attraction
We’ve been the trade and investment representative for the State of South Carolina in China and Taiwan since 2015, Korea since 2017 and Japan since 2019.
Our work includes FDI lead generation, matchmaking, attending trade shows, representing the State on the Council of American States (Japan), organising multi-track trade and investment missions, group events and delegation briefings, plus email marketing and interfacing with SelectUSA, USCS, AmCham and other multipliers.
Market whitepapers
We have been commissioned by the UK’s Department for International Trade to produce a series of reports on opportunities for British exporters to South Korea.
These focus on priority growth sectors including IoT, AI, information security, data analytics, smart cities, autonomous vehicles, digital health and ecommerce.
Overseas missions
We were contracted as a lead generator for an FDI mission encompassing a series of seminars and meetings in Seoul, South Korea, and Tokyo, Osaka and Fukuoka in Japan.
We researched 4,200 companies, contacted 2,000 individuals and secured the attendance of 169 executives at the seminars, as well as setting up 118 meetings. The introduction of Samsung Renewable Energy to the City of Summerside on Prince Edward Island resulted in a successful pilot followed by the $68M development of a 65,000-solar panel and battery storage farm.
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