Patricia Francisis Chair of the Government of Jamaica Trade Facilitation Task Force and is a former Assistant Secretary General and Executive Director of the International Trade Centre (UN/WTO). She was Special Advisor to UN Women’s Executive Director from 2018-2020 and was also the former President of JAMPRO.  She joined the Board of Jamaica Producers Group in 2013 and serves on the boards of the IESE Graduate Business School, B & D Trawling Ltd., Portland JSX and Whiteshield Partners, Strategy & Public Policy Advisory.  In 2024, she was appointed non-resident Senior Fellow of the Atlantic Council.  Patricia also volunteers as a Director with the Rose Town Foundation and the Alligator Head Foundation.  She was awarded the Commander of the Order of Civil Merit by the Government of Spain in 2006, the Order of Distinction, Commander Class by the Government of Jamaica in 2015 and in 2024 the Caribbean Women in Trade’s International Woman of the Year award.  Mrs. Francis is a graduate of the University of Miami.