UK Appoints Trade Envoy to Georgia, Armenia

On September 12, the UK Prime Minister Theresa May appointed Mark Pritchard, MP, as a British Trade Envoy to Georgia and Armenia.

Trade envoys are a network of parliamentarians appointed by the Prime Minister, drawn from across the political spectrum. Trade envoys engage with one or more emerging markets where substantial trade and investment opportunities have been identified by the UK government. They support the drive for economic growth by building on the UK’s existing relations with these markets and maximizing bilateral trade.

"I’m honored to have been asked by the Prime Minister to be the UK's first Trade Envoy to Georgia and Armenia,” Mr Pritchard said. “My appointment underscores the importance of increasing the UK's trade and investment in Georgia and Armenia and Her Majesty's Government's commitment to a policy of commercial and business success between our respective countries. There are very many trade and investment opportunities to be realised".

Mark Pritchard MP has spent over 12 years in Parliament and was appointed by the UK Prime Minister to the Council of Europe and the UK Parliament’s Joint Human Rights Committee in 2015. Holding two Masters degrees: International Diplomacy (Buckingham) and Marketing Management (London Guildhall), Pritchard is a member of the Migration, Refugees & Displaced Persons Committee and the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly (BIPA), serves as Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee and Chairman of the Latvia Parliamentary Group, and is the Founding Chairman of the Parliamentary Group on Cyber-Security. He is an elected member of the British-American Parliamentary Group (BAPG) Executive Committee and, until 2015, was a member of the Joint National Security Strategy Committee (2011-2015) and a UK delegate to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (2010-2015).

Katie Ruth Davies