Teddy Yagambaram Soobramanien

CEO
COMESA Business Council

Teddy Yagambaram Soobramanien is the Chief Executive Officer of COMESA Business Council.

Teddy has more than 25 years of international experience in trade negotiations, policy implementation, business development, and organizational management. He has held leading positions at the WTO Secretariat, the UN International Trade Centre, the Commonwealth Secretariat, the UK Government, the ACP-EU TradeCom Facility, the private sector, and the Mauritius Mission to the UN in Geneva. He steered to success many of the programmes he had responsibility for, including the Aid for Trade Hub and Spokes Programme.

Teddy published extensively on international trade issues of interest to Sub-Saharan Africa, small economies, the ACP, and developing countries. In addition, he implemented several private sector development projects for the TradeCom Facility.

He is a Doctoral Candidate in International Trade Law at the University of Reading, UK. He also holds a Master's Degree in Law (LLM) from the Aberdeen Business School, Robert Gordon University, UK, a BSc (Hons) Degree in Economics from the University of Mauritius, and a Diploma in Trade Policy from the WTO Secretariat in Geneva.