Agenda

Mr. James Howe is Head of Digital, Markets and Connectivity at the International Trade Centre, a joint agency of the World Trade Organization and the United Nations. ITC’s mission is to enable small-business export success by connecting small and medium-sized enterprises in developing countries and transition economies to the global trading system. James and his team work to enable enterprises to activate their marketing strategies through branding, sales and marketing programmes and e-commerce.

Mr Torbjörn Fredriksson heads the E-commerce and Digital Economy Programme at the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). The Branch’s work covers the Digital Economy Report, the eTrade for all initiative, eTrade for Women, the UNCTAD eWeek, various capacity-building activities, and the Intergovernmental Group of Experts on E-commerce and the Digital Economy. Mr Fredriksson joined the UN in 2000.

Ms. Allison St. Brice is the Chargé d'Affaires a.i. at the Permanent Mission of Trinidad and Tobago to the United Nations in Geneva. 

Mr. Juan Moroni is Digital Transformation and Policy Expert at the Universal Postal Union (UPU), the United Nations specialized agency for the postal sector. The UPU is the primary forum for cooperation between postal sector stakeholders, fulfilling an advisory, mediating and liaison role, and providing technical assistance to its members. Juan is also the co-founder and lead of Connect.post, a UPU initiative to leverage the postal network to advance digital, social and financial inclusion, and to foster sustainable socio-economic development.

Bernard Banda is currently Director for Economic Regulation and Consumer Protection at the Zambia Information and Communication Technology Authority, the regulator of Information and Communication Technologies in Zambia. He is responsible for overseeing the Authority’s regulatory mandate related to monitoring developments in the sector, managing competition, consumer protection as well as generating research evidence for decision making. He has been involved in the development of various policy and strategy documents relating to the ICT sector. Bernard is also responsible for coordinating all compliance programmes for the ICT sector undertaken by ZICTA. He holds an MSc in Economics and BA in Economics/Mathematical Statistics as well as various professional  certifications.

Ms. Hilda Moraa is an eTrade for Women Advocate for 2024-25. She is an award-winning serial fintech entrepreneur, a Software Engineer by training, and author. She has more than 15 years of entrepreneurship experience in Fintech and working with multinationals supply chain firms to develop innovations across Africa. In 2015, her first tech start-up was the first recorded multi-million dollar exit in the Kenyan ecosystem. She is currently the Founder & CEO of Pezesha, a holistic digital financial infrastructure powering working capital and credit scoring to SMEs and institutions across Africa. Hilda also served as a board advisor in various innovation initiatives under the Ministry of ICT such as Konza City.