Exclusive profile: Queen Creole? EBRD's new head of trade facilitation on digitalisation and sustainability

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Europe

Katharine Morton

Head of Export, Project and Development Finance

In her first interview since her appointment on 7 May, Shona Tatchell, the new head of trade and supply chain finance, European Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD) Trade Facilitation Programme (TFP), discusses her unusual journey to the role, and how she is well placed to help champion digitalisation and sustainability in trade. Is she the 'Queen Creole' of trade facilitation?

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