Marco Forgione MCIEx

As director general of the Chartered Institute, Marco is a leading authority on global trade, empowering businesses to grow internationally through educational and digital trade solutions. He is a key intermediator between governments and businesses domestically and overseas, sitting on the UK Critical Imports Council and on the multilateral B20 Taskforce for Trade and Investment, and is a visiting professor at Aston University. Marco is also a passionate advocate for trade as a force for good in the world, regularly commenting in international media that trade is a driver of economic prosperity and that it can bring communities closer together.