Key speakers
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Gerd Müller, Director General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) as of 10 December 2021, has had various leadership positions from an early stage in his career. Between 1980 and 1989, he was a teacher at vocational schools and a civil servant at the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs. From 1989 to 1994, he served as a Member of the European Parliament, during which time he was a member of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.
Between 1994 and 2021, he served as a Member of the Parliament of the Federal Republic of Germany, and as a member of the Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs and Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development.
In 2005, he was appointed Deputy Minister at the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection, in charge of international relations, development projects and world food affairs.
In 2013, he was appointed Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, a position he held until 2021.
Gerd Müller has many years of experience in the fields of multilateral cooperation, sustainability and innovative agriculture. Key focus areas of his work are the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Paris Agreement on climate change, the Convention on Biological Diversity, and the Beijing Declaration on Gender Equality. Furthermore, he is a strong advocate of fair trade, and initiated legislation in Germany and the European Union on social and environmental standards along supply chains.
Joni Musabayana leads the promotion of social justice, decent work, and inclusive economic growth across 13 Member States and nine non-metropolitan territories in the English-and Dutch-speaking Caribbean. He provides strategic direction for technical guidance and cooperation through Decent Work Country Programmes and other activities though the United Nations system.
Prior to joining the ILO Caribbean Office in 2023, Mr. Musabayana was Director of the ILO Pretoria Decent Work Team, leading support for 18 countries in Eastern and Southern Africa. He was also Director for the Country Office politically and administratively covering Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho and South Africa.
He has a Doctorate in Business Leadership from UNISA School of Business Leadership, a Master of Business Administration and Bachelor of Science in Political Science and Public Administration from the University of Zimbabwe.
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Jane Musyoki is the Officer in charge of Trade Information Portal and Value Add Services at Kenya Trade Network Agency (KenTrade); the organization mandated to facilitate cross border trade and establish, manage and implement the National Electronic Single Window System in Kenya. She has progressive experience in International Trade for Eight years.
Jane holds a Masters degree in Business Administration (Strategic Management) from the University of Nairobi and is a communication graduate from the same University. She has a post graduate diploma in Information and Technology, Certificate in Trade Law & Policy and is also a Master trainer in Trade facilitation Agreement in East Africa Community Bloc. She is a PRINCE2 Practictioner in certification in managing successful projects as well as a TRALAC Alumni.
Namrata Nadkarni is the CEO and Founder of Intent Communications, which specialises in maritime consulting and communications.
With nearly two decades of editorial and marketing work in the maritime industry under her belt, Namrata is an award winning journalist that has worked on well known maritime publications writing about merchant and cruise shipping, ports, safety, dredging, supply chains, decarbonisation, diversity, emerging technology and more.
She has served as a Non-Executive Director of Shoreham Port and chairs the Alternative Fuels Working Group for the World Ports Climate Action Programme (WPCAP) that is focused on delivering the Port Readiness Level framework for Marine Fuels.
Iman Nasr is Undersecretary and Head of Central Department of World Trade Organization Affairs, Trade Agreements Sector, Ministry of Trade and Industry, Egypt.
Working for over 20 years at the Ministry of Trade and Industry of Egypt, Iman has participated in the formulation of Egypt's negotiating position in bilateral, regional and multilateral trade negotiations. She has been involved in designing trade-related capacity building with Egypt's international development partners including UNCTAD and the World Bank.
Iman leads the Central Department for WTO Affairs responsible for the formulation of the Egyptian negotiating position in the WTO, since the launch of the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) in 2001, and following the implementation of Egypt's rights and obligations in the WTO.
She is also the Deputy Chairperson of Egypt's National Trade Facilitation Committee and the Head of its Technical Secretariat. A central area of her work is to ensure the formulation of Egyptian Trade Policy in a manner that achieves the appropriate balance between Egypt's development objectives and its commitments and obligations under the different WTO Agreements.
Ines Nastali is Senior Maritime Data Expert at S&P Global Market Intelligence, where she works on updating the global fleet registries and the IMO ship numbering and company team. She connects S&P's extensive ships database to the industry and media by publishing data analysis on fraudulent flags and tonnage overviews of different ship registries.
Since joining in 2018, she focuses on utilizing S&P Global's dredging, port, and maritime data, crafting interactive and print visualizations to highlight fleet data, port developments, shipbuilding trends, and casualty incidents.
Previously, Ines joined IHS Markit as the editor of Dredging and Ports Construction magazine. She then became editor of Ports & Harbors, the membership publication of the International Association of Ports and Harbors. She has also edited science titles for the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining in London.
Her maritime journalism career started in 2015 at The Marine Professional, the membership publication of the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science, and Technology.
Leo serves as the Deputy Executive Director at Caribbean Export Development Agency, where he leads the Agency's Subregional Office in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
In addition, he is the Programme Manager for the implementation of the Trade and Private Sector Component of the Haiti-DR Binational Programme being implemented by Caribbean Export under the 11th European Development Fund.
Prior to this role, Leo was the Deputy Head of Investment Promotion for US East at Invest Hong Kong, where he led the Consumer Products, Tourism and Hospitality, and Creative Industries portfolios for the eastern half of the United States. Leo was also an International Relations Associate within the Government Contracts Team at the Business Council for International Relations (BCIU) in New York City.
Before stepping into a leadership position, Leo had worked at Caribbean Export as a Competitiveness and Innovation Advisor. He also served as a Trade and Investment Policy Specialist at the Dominican Republic Export and Investment Center.
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Ahmed Niyaz is the Head of Strategic Management and International Relations Division of the Maldives Customs Service. He joined the Maldives Customs Service (MCS) in June 2007.
Over the last 17 years, he has contributed to various areas such as document processing, Customs valuation, strategic management, international relations, as well as tariff and trade.
He was among participants of the first batch of WCO Scholarship Program titled “Masters in Strategic Management and Intellectual Property Rights” held at Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan in the year 2011-2012.
He is also a World Customs Organization (WCO) accredited Mercator Program Advisor (MPA) on the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) and has undertaken numerous diagnostic missions in countries such as Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, and Bangladesh. Most recently in September 2023, he undertook a follow-up mission, to the National Board of Revenue (NBR) of Bangladesh.
Ambassador Roger F. Nyhus is an accomplished business and civic leader – and one of only a handful of Native American ambassadors in U.S. history. He was appointed by President Joe Biden in September 2022 and confirmed unanimously by the U.S. Senate in November 2023. His top three priorities as ambassador are addressing climate change, enhancing regional security and promoting economic prosperity.
Ambassador Nyhus brings an entrepreneurial, private sector perspective to his role. Previously, he served as founder and CEO of Nyhus Communications, a nearly 30-year-old, Seattle-based strategic communications, advocacy and marketing consultancy. In this role, Ambassador Nyhus served as an adviser to business and government leaders around the world, including CEOs of Fortune 500 companies.
Ambassador Nyhus built his career promoting American companies in sectors relevant to the Eastern Caribbean, including sustainability and energy, aviation, travel and tourism, telecommunications, global health and health care, financial services, global philanthropy, seafood and the arts.
Ambassador Nyhus has been recognized for his business, civic and philanthropic work. In 2023, Ambassador Nyhus was inducted into the Hall of Achievement at Washington State University’s Edward R. Murrow College of Communication, his alma mater, and received the Public Relations Society of America’s Jay Rockey Lifetime Achievement Award for advancing the field of public relations.
In 2010, Ambassador Nyhus was named Business Leader of the Year by the Greater Seattle Business Association, North America’s largest LGBTQ+ chamber of commerce. Nyhus Communications earned the Seattle Mayor’s Small Business Award in 2009. In 2006, the Puget Sound Business Journal recognized Ambassador Nyhus as one of 40 outstanding members of the business community under the age of 40.