Policy Based Initiatives International Trade Centre ITC (International Trade Center) 2011
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| Executive Director ITC - Patricia Francis and International President Elizabeth Benham renew MOU agreement. | |||
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BPW International is very proud to have had our partnership with ITC renewed at our Congress in Helsinki after the Executive Director Patricia Francis and the ITC team completed the plenary session on Sunday June 19th, 2011 Entitled : ACCESS TRACK PLENARY: Global Supply Chain Smart Economics: More Women In The Global Supply-Chain The BPW International initiative on getting more women into the global supply chain is going strong and we are preparing to have a delegation of at least 20 of our business members going to the Women Vendors Exhibition and Forum Tuesday, 27 September 2011 - Thursday, 29 September 2011 in Chongqing, China. Patricia Francis
An award-winning leader and business facilitator, Patricia Francis joined the International Trade Centre as Executive Director in June 2006. Under her leadership ITC’s annual project implementation grew from US$ 25 to US$40 million with larger, multi-year, multi stakeholder programmes now over 50% of the portfolio. Performance management, the mainstreaming of gender, environment, poverty and strategic partnerships to achieve “Export Impact for Good” are changes championed by Mrs. Francis’s administration. Before ITC, Mrs. Francis was President of Jamaica Trade and Invest when Jamaica attracted more than US$5 billion in foreign direct investment. A member of Jamaica’s Cabinet Committee for Development, she was also twice President of the World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies, chaired the OECD’s Caribbean Rim Investment Initiative and the China-Caribbean Business Council. She is a member of the Advisory Board of IESE graduate school of business and a member of the Eminent Persons Group reviewing the Commonwealth. Global Platform for action teamMeg Jones , Rupa Ganguli , Virginia Littlejohn, Liz Benham (Click on name to see the Bio) |
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GLOBAL PLATFORM BROCHURE | |
WOMEN VENDORS EXHIBITION AND FORUM |
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Opportunities are available from the Multinational Corporations wishing to do business with women owners.
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