Morgan McDermott is an International Program Specialist with the Commercial Law Development Program (CLDP) in the Office of the General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Commerce. 

Prior to joining CLDP, Ms. McDermott was a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Thailand, where she acted as a liaison between the Thai-United States Educational Foundation and the U.S. Embassy in Bangkok and taught English to Technical College students. Before her Fulbright, she completed a Boren Scholarship for Chinese Language at National Taiwan University in Taiwan.

Ms. McDermott received her B.S. in Economics and Political Science from Florida Southern College. She speaks Chinese and is conversational in Thai.