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Meg Jones is passionate about the economic empowerment of women through trade. For the past 20 years Meg has been working in the private and public sectors to draw attention to the significant economic and development gains to be achieved through policies and practices that enhance women’s capacity to trade. Meg is the Women and Trade Programme Manager at the International Trade Centre (a joint agency of the United Nations and WTO), where she led the team that established and secured financial support for ITC’s ‘Women and Trade Programme’. She is the former Deputy Director of the Evian Group at IMD – a trade think tank. Meg has also worked for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner of Human Rights, prior to which she was on the Australian delegation to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. Meg brings with her private sector experience gained from working in the financial markets and in management consulting. She has sat on several boards including the Australia-Swiss Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Organization of Women in International Trade, and was the founding president of Geneva Women in International Trade. Meg holds a Master of International Studies and a Bachelor of Economics (University of Sydney) having studied in Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia and the Netherlands. She speaks English, Japanese and French.