Topic Presentation:

Determining Markets: Tapping into DR Market – market opportunities for Curacao companies in DR.

Bio Mrs. Taiana Mora Ramis, CEO, NEX Consultants S.R.L

Ms. Taiana Mora has 30 years of experience in export development and export promotion of both goods and services. She has worked for more than 27 years for public and private organizations throughout the Caribbean, including strategies, policy advisors, capacity building, export training, and export plan development, especially for services export, including creative industries. She was the Executive Director of the Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export). She is currently the Managing Director of NEX Consulting, an international consulting firm specializing in development cooperation and international trade reaching the wider Caribbean and supporting different countries’ public and private sectors including Curaçao through its Desk in the Dominican Republic.

Taiana Mora is the Director of the Dominican Republic Coalition of Services (CSRD) and President of the Latin American Association of Services Exporters (ALES) Board of Directors. She is also vice president of the Dutch-Dominican Chamber of Commerce.

She has assisted more than 700 companies and organizations through training, coaching, advice, and international marketing. Through her consultancy, she has promoted and facilitated the establishment of 5 organizations related to services export. She has extensive experience in the Caribbean, the US, and Europe markets.

She has participated in multiple training and events related to service export and creative industries in the EU, WTO, the Caribbean, and Latin American countries.  She has also researched service providers and EPA trade agreements and delivered training on the subject matter. She has developed a training and coaching program for service providers that has been seen as an example internationally.

Ms. Mora has postgraduate study in Marketing and graduate study in Communications. She has been a presenter in multiple international fora and events in the Caribbean, Latin America, and Europe. She is the author of 6 books including two studies on the Dominican Republic’s strategy for the Caribbean commissioned and published by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Dominican Republic (one co-authored) a recent publication of the history of 30 years of EU Cooperation in the DR (with FLACSO University- coauthored) and  Diplomacia de la Solidaridad, a history of the EU Delegation in the Dominican Republic.