online event
Gender and trade in 2024
Learn about how countries around the globe are working to develop and advance their trade policy to ensure women can fully access the benefits of trade.
What you’ll learn
- What it looks like for Gender and Trade in 2024?
- Gender provisions in Trade Agreements - do they matter?
- DBT support available
Description
Across the globe, landmark policies and trade arrangements have contributed to a more favourable environment for women to expand their businesses overseas. Although selling products and services has become more inclusive over the past few decades with an increasing participation from women-led businesses, these still face more barriers and challenges selling their products and services internationally than those led by men, including in the UK.
By joining this webinar you will hear about the work the Department for Business and Trade and other countries around the globe are doing to develop and implement trade policy that advance gender equality and seek to ensure women can fully access the benefits of trade.
Speakers
Noreen Burroughes Cesareo
International Trade, Strategic Marketing and Communications specialist, The Organisation of Women in International Trade in the UK
Noreen is an International Trade, Strategic Marketing and Communications specialist with an international private enterprise and entrepreneurial background.
She is also the principal consultant of a UK-based international advisory firm she set up in 2007, called Market Accents. This WEConnect-certified consultancy has served as a platform for her to engage with clients on projects of varying sizes, at times working in collaborative partnerships with other SMEs and larger organisations to tender for projects within supply chains or to seek to open market opportunities.
Holly Piggott
Director, Alinea Customs
Alinea Customs are a UK customs brokerage and international trade consultancy that provides import and export clearance and transit documents and has in-house legal expertise addressing all aspects of UK customs compliance and practice.
Holly is a regular editorial contributor to Trade Finance Global, a member of SIITACE, and an Ambassador for OWIT UK. She was nominated in the ‘Women In Maritime’ category in the ‘Women in Trade, Treasury and Payments 2023’ campaign by Trade Finance Global, and was a participant in the Border Innovation Hub lead by the Cabinet Office.
Emma Cheetham
Founder and Director, ECLS Translations
Emma is the founder and director of ECLS Translations and member of Women in Localization and the Organisation of Women in International Trade (OWIT). ECLS Translations supports exporting businesses of all sizes in the marketing, technology, automotive and manufacturing sectors, as well as partnering with associations, agencies and embassies in line with its motto of “advancing global prosperity, harmony and connectedness – one word at a time”.
Melissa Mariano
Gender FTA and Multilateral Lead, Cross-Cutting Policy Directorate, Department for Business and Trade
Melissa's team develops, negotiates and implements policy positions that advance gender equality, to help deliver HMG’s commitment to a gender-responsive trade policy, seeking to ensure women can fully access the benefits of trade to support economic growth.