Chris Moran

Chris Moran, Director General, Trade Portfolio Strategy Coordination Bureau, Global Affairs Canada

Chris Moran - Director General, Trade Portfolio Strategy Coordination Bureau : Global Affairs CanadaChris Moran is the Director General of the Trade Portfolio Strategy Coordination Bureau in the International Business Development Branch of Global Affairs Canada. She is responsible for portfolio governance (Export Development Canada and the Canadian Commercial Corporation), corporate social responsibility policy and operations, program policy related to service to underrepresented exporters, trade missions and free trade agreement promotion. Chris has deep experience in strategic policy development in the areas of trade policy and agricultural policy and has served as a Canadian negotiator on sanitary and phytosanitary and technical barriers to trade issues in multilateral and bilateral negotiations, and has led federal-provincial-territorial negotiations on performance measurement and cost overruns in agricultural programming. She served as a trade commissioner in Chicago, Illinois, and was the executive director of the Grain Growers of Canada.