Cuba’s Chamber of Commerce has new board of directors

The Board of Directors of Cuba’s Chamber of Commerce got an all-out facelift. Now Sara Marta Diaz will be the new president of the state-run institution.

For a number of years, Mrs. Diaz worked as juridical director and secretary-general for the Chamber of Commerce. She also served a stint as Cuba’s trade advisor to Santiago de Chile. For the first time ever in forty years and seven presidents later, a woman takes over as top chief of the island nation’s Chamber of Commerce.

The Chamber’s former president, Antonio Carricarte, has just been appointed Vice Minister of Foreign Trade. As to the Chamber’s other top posts, Odalys M. Seijo Garcia will continue as vice president and Frank Abel Portela Chacon will take over as secretary-general.

The new leadership is made up of highly trained individuals from an academic standpoint, has ample experience under its belt and is widely known in entrepreneurial circles. (excerpted from Cuba Foreign Trade magazine).