Gafta Director General awarded OBE
Gafta is delighted to announce that its Director General, Jaine Chisholm Caunt, has been awarded an OBE in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List 2022, for services to promote International Free Trade.
Jaine has been Director General of Gafta for 7 ½ years. Gafta is an International Trade Association representing over 1900 member companies in 98 countries who trade in agricultural commodities. It is estimated that around 80% of world grain is shipped on Gafta contracts. Gafta promotes free trade in agricultural commodities, as well as a science and evidence-based approach to international trade policy and regulatory decision making.
Jaine is also a board member of two European Trade Associations in the Agricultural Commodity sphere, COCERAL and CELCAA, and two International Trade Associations, IGTC and IAFN. She is a former Chair of the IAFN which co-ordinates the Private Sector Mechanism at the UN Committee on World Food Security and is the current Chair of the Federation of Commodity Associations.
Gavin Millar, President of Gafta said “I am thrilled and delighted that Jaine has been recognised and received this thoroughly deserved honour. Promoting international free trade is the beating heart of Gafta’s purpose for being, and under her outstanding leadership the full range of Gafta’s services are thriving. Jaine is a great ambassador for Gafta, promoting values based on its motto ‘my word is my bond’. She is a truly inspirational woman, and it has been a great privilege for me personally to have served the association as President, alongside her as Director General.”
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