2012
New England Supply Chain Conference & Exhibition

Christine Carr
Trade Commissioner, Consulate General of Canada, Boston

Christine Carr joined the Consulate General of Canada, Boston as the Technology and Business Development Officer in 2007, and is now the Trade Commissioner for the ICT & Clean Tech group. She has 25 years of business development, marketing, public relations and investment experience in the private sector. She has an excellent range of business networks and is an experienced cross-cultural communicator. As the Trade Commissioner for the Consulate, Christine is responsible for creating linkages between the Canadian and US technology communities, and identifying opportunities for Canadian businesses to establish and grow their businesses in the US. Through her work, Christine is closely linked with Canada's Technology Triangle in Waterloo, its key Centers of Technology Research, and a diverse membership of technology, IT and advanced manufacturing businesses throughout the country. Through the DFAIT network (Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade), Christine is linked to hundreds of ICT and Technology Officers around the world.

Christine has worked in the field of international business development since 1993, and owned and operated her own consulting firm, where she conducted business development activities for companies in advanced manufacturing, telecommunications, information technologies, and other industries. During this period, she spent 7 years working in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and Australia where she represented US companies seeking partnerships, distributorships, and operations or sales expansion and establishing foreign companies' operations in the USA. She has managed international business development activities spanning a wide range of industries, including a significant sports initiative that launched a U.S. American Football League in Taiwan.

In 1998, Christine assisted her family's NH-based manufacturing business with its own growth and expansion. For the next several years, she supported her family's efforts to successfully transition the business to the next generation of advanced manufacturing technology.

Christine has been active in business and industry organizations in the USA and globally, and more recently has served on the boards of key New England-based industry associations such as Boston's Instrumentation, Systems and Automation Society (ISA), and Association of Operations Management Professionals (APICs) where she has served on the Board for over 7 years including a term as President of both organizations. Christine's most current obsession is jazz improvisation which she has been studying for 10 years.
 

Presentation:
Canadian Consulate Office Hours