Speakers

His Excellency Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali
President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana and Commander-in Chief of the Armed Forces

Hon. Zulfikar Mustapha
Minister of Agriculture of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana

Hon. Oneidge Walrond
Minister of Tourism, Industry and Commerce of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana

Hon. Kerryne James
Minister for Climate Resilience, The Environment, and Renewable Energy of Grenada

Dr. Damie Sinanan
Executive Director, Caribbean Export Development Agency

Dr Carla N Barnett
Secretary General, CARICOM Secretariat

Ambassador René Van NES
Ambassador and Head of the European Union Delegation to Guyana, for Suriname and with responsibility for Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, St Barthelemy, St Eustatius and St Maarten

Lisa Harding
Head (Ag.) - Private Sector Division, Caribbean Development Bank

Leo Naut
Deputy Executive Director, Caribbean Export Development Agency

Nigel M. Baptiste
Group President and Chief Executive Officer, Republic Financial Holdings Ltd.

Isobel Coleman
Deputy Administrator for Policy and Programming, USAID

Dr. Peter Ramsaroop
Head of the Guyana Office for Investment and Guyana’s Chief Investment Officer under the Office of the President

Lorena Solórzano-Salazar
Country Representative of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Office in Guyana

Dr. Gerrard P. Bushell
Chairman, CAG Holdings

Kieron Boyle
Chief Executive Officer, Impact Investing Institute

Devin Griffith
CEO & Chief Strategist, The G&A Group

Elizabeth Martínez de Marcano
Regional Director for Colombia, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, International Finance Corporation (IFC)

Jamie McInerney
Managing Director, CrossBoundary

Jody White
Sustainable Food Systems Expert

Carlene Hamilton
Trade Policy Officer, Delegation of the European Union to Barbados

Kristina Eisele
Southern and Eastern Caribbean Representative, European Investment Bank (EIB)

Andrew Mendes
Managing Director, Farfam and Mendes Ltd (FML)

Carlos Eduardo Narvaez
Principal and Head of Agribusiness (a.i.), IDB Invest

Dave Sahadath
Director of Global Business Development, Global Integrated FinTech Solutions

Haimwant Persaud
Director, Latitude Geospatial

Felipe de la Mota
Team Leader Regional Programmes in the Caribbean, EU Delegation in Barbados

Okechukwu Ihejirika
Chief Operating Officer Ag., Caribbean Office at the African Export Import Bank (Afreximbank)

Patrick Starr
Director of Investments, U.S. International Development Finance Corporation

Hadyn Gittens
Chairman of the Trinidad and Tobago Integrity Commission

Ambassador Dr. Andre Thomas
UN Peace Ambassador and CEO of Pleion Global Group Inc.

Adam Carter
Managing Director, CIBC Caribbean

JoEllen Laryea
Manager (ag), Partnerships, Advocacy and Reporting, Caribbean Export Development Agency

Natasha Edwin Walcott
Manager (ag) - Competitiveness and Export Promotion, Caribbean Export Development Agency

Tonya Cummins
Advisor Investment Promotion, Caribbean Export Development Agency

Nuriyyih Gerrard
Director & Event Host Eloquent Guyana

Ryshelle McCadney
Vice President Environmental and Social Risk Management, Citi

Annie Bertrand
Private Sector development specialist