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Ronald N. Langston is the national director of the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA).  Langston is an experienced executive who brings a wealth of expertise from the public, private, and non-profit sectors.  He has initiated a transformation of MBDA from an administrative agency to an entrepreneurial organization that focuses on entrepreneurial training, managing organizational knowledge, and strengthening the performance verification of its core competencies.  Langston believes that a national business enterprise model will serve as the catalyst to foster capacity and growth to the Nation's minority business community.

Langston’s federal career began as a legislative assistant to former U.S. Senator Roger Jepsen (R-Iowa).  He next served as a presidential appointee during the Reagan Administration with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).  Langston was the first African-American to win the Republican nomination for the Iowa Senate and represented the Iowa Republican Party in 1996 and 2000.  He holds degrees from the University of Iowa, the City University of New York (National Urban/Rural Fellow) and Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.