BPW International

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 team

Meg Jones , Rupa Ganguli , Virginia Littlejohn, Liz Benham  (Click on name to see the Bio)