Speakers
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His Excellency Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali
President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana and Commander-in Chief of the Armed Forces
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Hon. Zulfikar Mustapha
Minister of Agriculture of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana
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Hon. Oneidge Walrond
Minister of Tourism, Industry and Commerce of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana
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Hon. Kerryne James
Minister for Climate Resilience, The Environment, and Renewable Energy of Grenada
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Dr. Damie Sinanan
Executive Director, Caribbean Export Development Agency
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Dr Carla N Barnett
Secretary General, CARICOM Secretariat
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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
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Lisa Harding
Head (Ag.) - Private Sector Division, Caribbean Development Bank
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Leo Naut
Deputy Executive Director, Caribbean Export Development Agency
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Nigel M. Baptiste
Group President and Chief Executive Officer, Republic Financial Holdings Ltd.
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Isobel Coleman
Deputy Administrator for Policy and Programming, USAID
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Dr. Peter Ramsaroop
Head of the Guyana Office for Investment and Guyana’s Chief Investment Officer under the Office of the President
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Lorena Solórzano-Salazar
Country Representative of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Office in Guyana
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Dr. Gerrard P. Bushell
Chairman, CAG Holdings
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Kieron Boyle
Chief Executive Officer, Impact Investing Institute
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Devin Griffith
CEO & Chief Strategist, The G&A Group
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Elizabeth Martínez de Marcano
Regional Director for Colombia, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, International Finance Corporation (IFC)
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Jamie McInerney
Managing Director, CrossBoundary
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Jody White
Sustainable Food Systems Expert
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Carlene Hamilton
Trade Policy Officer, Delegation of the European Union to Barbados
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Kristina Eisele
Southern and Eastern Caribbean Representative, European Investment Bank (EIB)
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Andrew Mendes
Managing Director, Farfam and Mendes Ltd (FML)
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Carlos Eduardo Narvaez
Principal and Head of Agribusiness (a.i.), IDB Invest
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Dave Sahadath
Director of Global Business Development, Global Integrated FinTech Solutions
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Haimwant Persaud
Director, Latitude Geospatial
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Felipe de la Mota
Team Leader Regional Programmes in the Caribbean, EU Delegation in Barbados
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Okechukwu Ihejirika
Chief Operating Officer Ag., Caribbean Office at the African Export Import Bank (Afreximbank)
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Patrick Starr
Director of Investments, U.S. International Development Finance Corporation
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Hadyn Gittens
Chairman of the Trinidad and Tobago Integrity Commission
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Ambassador Dr. Andre Thomas
UN Peace Ambassador and CEO of Pleion Global Group Inc.
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Adam Carter
Managing Director, CIBC Caribbean
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JoEllen Laryea
Manager (ag), Partnerships, Advocacy and Reporting, Caribbean Export Development Agency
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Natasha Edwin Walcott
Manager (ag) - Competitiveness and Export Promotion, Caribbean Export Development Agency
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Tonya Cummins
Advisor Investment Promotion, Caribbean Export Development Agency
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Nuriyyih Gerrard
Director & Event Host Eloquent Guyana
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Ryshelle McCadney
Vice President Environmental and Social Risk Management, Citi
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Annie Bertrand
Private Sector development specialist