Empowering Global Organizations to Drive Economic Growth

J.E. Austin Associates (JAA) is a global strategy and economic development firm specializing in solving complex growth, investment, and competitiveness challenges. Since 1986, JAA has delivered measurable outcomes across more than 700 assignments in 127 countries, positioning clients and partners to unlock potential, catalyze investment, and achieve sustainable market-led growth. With expertise that spans business growth, agribusiness market systems, tourism consulting, and economic policy reform, JAA bridges the private and public sectors, understanding the priorities of business, the realities of policymaking, and the pathways to impactful results.

Through its range of tailored services, JAA has supported economic transformation across Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America. The firm pioneered competitiveness and value chain analysis and implementation approaches beginning in the early 1990s, and deploys proprietary methodologies and tools including the Export Market Entry and Expansion methodology, Policy Development and Implementation methodology, Institutional Development toolkit, and the Ten Bridges methodology for university-government-business collaboration in workforce development. JAA’s global team, based in the United States and more than 40 other countries, brings specialized expertise and sector-specific skills to complex problem solving with business and government leaders. JAA provides deep knowledge of markets and a multitude of private sector and government contacts in each of these countries.