Global supply chains increasingly assume the attributes of a public good. China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) organizes the drafting of the Global Supply Chain Promotion Report, which has been the flagship report for the first China International Supply Chain Expo in late 2023.
Global Supply Chain Promotion Report is the first research on supply chain promotion from a global business community perspective and creates a global supply chain promotion analysis system.
The published version will be released globally for the first time on 22 May, and taking this opportunity, people who are involved in the research of Supply Chain will have an in-depth dialogue on what we shall do to promote the Global Supply Chain.
Programme
Speakers:
- Ren Hongbin, Chairman, CCPIT
- Shamika N. Sirimanne, Director, Division on Technology and Logistics, UNCTAD
- Zhao Ping, President, CCPIT Academy
Mr. Ren Hongbin, Secretary of the CPC Leadership Group and Chairman at the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT).
He worked successively as Commercial Counselor (deputy director-general level) in China's Embassy in Hungary, Party Secretary and Vice President of Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation, MOFCOM (director-general level), Director-General of the Department of WTO Affairs and Director-General of China WTO Notification and Inquiry Center, Director-General of the Department of Foreign Trade and Deputy Director-General of National Mechanic and Electronic Import and Export Office, MOFCOM, Assistant Minister of Commerce and Vice Minister of Commerce.
Shamika N. Sirimanne is the Director of the Division on Technology and Logistics of UNCTAD. She leads UNCTAD's trade logistics programme, including the work on trade facilitation, maritime transport, port management, and e-commerce and the digital economy. She also supervises UNCTAD’s largest technical cooperation programme, ASYCUDA—the Automated System for Customs.
Ms. Sirimanne has extensive experience in development policy, research and technical cooperation gained from international organizations, national governments, think tanks and universities. Prior to UNCTAD, she served as the Director of the ICT and Disaster Risk Reduction Division of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), where she spearheaded major regional cooperation programmes such as the Asia-Pacific Information Superhighway initiative, and Regional Drought Monitoring Mechanism.
During her tenure with ESCAP, Ms. Sirimanne also headed the trade facilitation programme, and led the macroeconomic policy work and ESCAP’s flagship publication, Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific. Prior to that, Ms. Sirimanne was with the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), where she led the economic policy team and the Economic Report on Africa, the flagship publication of ECA. She has also worked for the Canadian Ministry of Finance and the World Bank. Ms. Sirimanne holds a PhD in Economics.
Contact
Global Supply Chain Forum secretariat
gscf@unctad.org
Mr. Jan Hoffmann
Head of the Trade Logistics Branch
Division on Technology and Logistics
UNCTAD, Geneva
jan.hoffmann@unctad.org
Ms. Pamela Ugaz
Economic Affairs Officer
Trade Facilitation Section
Division on Technology and Logistics
UNCTAD, Geneva
pamela.ugaz@unctad.org
Bougainvillea Room
