Arancha González
Executive Director @ International Trade Centre
Geneva, Switzerland
Arancha González is a startup investor at International Trade Centre in Geneva. Arancha González an expert in international trade issues with 20 years of experience, serves as Executive Director of the International Trade Centre (ITC) since September 2013.González a Spanish national, has extensive knowledge about international trade and economics, coupled with broad experience in trade and development matters in the publicand private sectors, as well as in management at multilateral organizations.Before joining ITC, González served as Chief of Staff to World Trade Organization (WTO) Director-General Pascal Lamy from 2005 to 2013. During her tenure at the WTO, she played an active role in launching the WTO’s Aid for Trade initiative and served as Lamy’s representative at the G-20.Prior to working at the WTO, González held several positions at the European Commission, conducting negotiations of trade agreements and assisting developing countries in trade-development efforts. Between 2002 and 2004, she was the European Union spokeswoman for trade and adviser to the European Union Trade Commissioner.González began her career in the private sector advising companies on trade, competition and state-aid matters. She served as an associate at Bruckhaus Westrick Stegemann, a major German law firm, in Brussels.González holds a degree in law from the University of Navarra and a postgraduate degree in European Law from the University of Carlos III, Madrid.Besides her native Spanish, she speaks English, French, German and Italian.
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International Trade Centre is the joint agency of the World Trade Organization and the United Nations that supports sustainable and inclusive trade in developing and emerging economies. Its aim is for businesses in developing countries to become more competitive in global markets, speeding economic development, and contributing to the achievementof the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals. The International Trade Centre’s Netherlands Trust Fund V (NTF V) is a four-year partnership (July 2021- June 2025) signed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of The Netherlands and the International Trade Centre to support micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in the digital technologies and agribusiness sectors. The programme includes both sectors in Ethiopia, Ghana, Senegal, and the digital technologies sector in a multi-country project in Benin, Cote d'Ivoire, Mali and Uganda.—ITC's mission is to foster sustainable economic development and contribute to achieving the Millennium Development Goals in developing countries and transition economies through trade and international business development and to enable small-business export success by connecting small and medium-sized enterprises in developing countries and transition economies to the global trading system. ITC gives particular weight to project implementation in the least developed countries, landlocked developing countries, small island developing states, and sub-Saharan Africa.International Trade Centre was established in 1964 and is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Arancha González
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Aicha Pouye
Director, Division of Business and Institutional Support
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Ashish Shah
Director Division of Country Programmes
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Dorothy Tembo
Acting Executive Director
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Ferdinand Kjaerulff
Project Consultant
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