GENEVA – Ms. Dorothy Tembo, current Deputy Executive Director of the International Trade Centre, assumed the role of Executive Director ad interim of the organization on 13 January 2020 upon the departure of Ms. Arancha González. She will hold this position until the process for the appointment of a new Executive Director has been completed.
Ms. Tembo had served as Deputy Executive Director of ITC from June 2014.
Before joining ITC, Ms. Tembo was the Executive Director of the Enhanced Integrated Framework Programme (EIF) based at the World Trade Organization from 2008 to 2013. During her tenure, Ms. Tembo spearheaded the relaunch of the programme, which supports least developed countries (LDCs) in addressing their trade-related technical assistance needs and supply side constraints.
From 2004 to 2008, Ms. Tembo served as Chief Trade Negotiator and Director of Foreign Trade in the Ministry of Commerce, Trade and Industry of Zambia. Prior to this, Ms. Tembo served as a Trade and Investment Advisor on the USAID Zambia Trade and Investment Enhancement Project (ZAMTIE) project in Lusaka, providing support to the Ministry of Commerce, Trade and Industry and the private sector.
Between 2000 and 2003, Ms. Tembo served as Deputy Team Leader on the USAID RAPID project in Botswana, which assited 14 Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries in the implementation of the SADC Trade Protocol, after having served in various positions in the Ministry of Commerce, Trade and Industry, and Zambia’s National Commission for Development Planning.
Ms. Tembo holds a degree in Economics from the University of Zambia.
Meanwhile, International Trade Centre congratulates Arancha González on new role as she leaves Geneva for new role as foreign minister of Spain.
The staff of the International Trade Centre (ITC) has expressed its warmest gratitude to Ms. Arancha González for her six-and-a-half-year leadership of the organization after she was appointed foreign minister of Spain on 13 January 2020.
Ms. González served as Executive Director of ITC, a joint development agency of the United Nations and the World Trade Organisation, since September 2013. Her tenure was marked by a strengthening of the organization’s strategic priorities to connect micro, small and medium-sized enterprises to international markets, a focus on greater thought leadership around trade issues and an emphasis on the economic empowerment of women.
Ms. Dorothy Tembo, Deputy Executive Director, assumed the role of Executive Director ad interim upon the departure of Ms. González.
Source: International Trade Centre.
