"....an ambassador's job is government to government primarily, but it's also to be a commercial diplomat"
Amb. Anthony Harrington
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'In many significant offshore financial centres, specialist commercial judges exist where formal specialist courts do not'
The Hon. Justice L. Kawaley
Commercial Judge
Supreme Court,
Bermuda
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A large part of the foreign secretary's job is commercial diplomacy, a major part of foreign policy and should be done extremely well
- Vince Cable, UK Business Secretary
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Commercial diplomacy is an important component of the FCO's wider prosperity agenda, which brings together all the actions that it takes globally to support the UK economy
- Rt Hon. Lord Howell of Guildford
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Association of Certified Commercial Diplomats (ACCD) is a global professional body and extraterritorial regulatory authority for the commercial diplomatic profession which aims to promote integrity, professionalism, standardization, and good governance within the commercial diplomatic sector-specific profession, system-wide practice and sector-specific services, and field.
The ACCD offers various qualifications, certifications and accreditations for practitioners and institutions involved in commercial diplomacy and value-added function of commercial diplomats.
Key Functions and Activities:
- Examination of prospective, aspiring, and existing experienced unaccredited professionals'
- Qualification of practitioner-candidates for suitability, integrity, professionalism, competence and proficiency,
- Certification of practitioner-candidates for appropriate skills-specific knowledge, specialism-based expertise and competency-based experience,
- 'Call to Practice' of acceptable, recognised, approved and recommended practitioner-candidates,
- Accreditation of highly-skilled, highly-knowledgeable, highly-experienced, highly-competent and highly-influential, qualified, certified and suitable practitioner-candidates for admission into the commercial diplomatic profession and practice, as accredited commercial diplomat,
- 'Admission to Practice' of accredited commercial diplomats into the commercial diplomatic practice, profession and system,
- Registration of qualified, recognised, certified and accredited commercial diplomats by incorporation into the international register or roll of accredited commercial diplomats,
- 'Better Impactful Regulation' of qualified, certified, accredited, admitted, recognised, and registered commercial diplomats.
Membership Options
Individual Membership: Tailored to recognize accomplished learned commercial diplomatic leaders, highly-skilled, highly-proficient, highly-competent and seasoned practitioners, and new applicants alike,
Corporate Membership: Reserved for institutions that make significant contributions to the commercial diplomatic profession, system-wide practice, and highly-powered commercial diplomatic sector-specific services,
Accredited Institutional Membership: For institutions that offer advanced training and education in commercial diplomacy, such as universities and professional bodies, especially through the provision of vocational commercial diplomatic education and training-related comprehensive learning programme, approved, acceptable and recommended modules and modular-courses.
Advocacy
ACCD advocates for responsible commercial diplomacy, professionalism, and effective regulation of commercial diplomatic practice
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Regulation
ACCD is the global voice of the commercial diplomatic profession, the firstever extraterritorial rules-based representative body, and regulatory authority for commercial diplomats, and on the examination, qualification, suitability, acceptance, certification, 'Call to Practice', accreditation, suitability for 'Admission to Practice', and into the commercial diplomatic profession, system-wide practice, and commercial diplomatic system.
Accreditation
It provides various qualifications, certifications, accreditations, and membership options, including recognition for both seasoned and new practitioners alike.
Professional Development
ACCD encourages high-quality vocational training-related comprehensive postgraduate learning and development, education and training-related activities for commercial diplomats, including those in governments, multinational corporations, multilateral organizations, intergovernmental bodies, diplomatic institutions, central governments, central, commercial, investment and regional banks, and ministries and departments of trade and investment, commerce and industry, agriculture and natural resources, maritime services and industry, academia, and international organizations.
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Standards
ACCD strives to establish and enforce standards in the commercial diplomatic field, ensuring that accredited practitioners are well-trained, highly-skilled, highly-proficient and highly-competent, passionately driven, and suitable for Call to Practice and subsequent Admission to Practice.
Categories
- Extraterritorial Rules-based Regulatory Body
- Civil Society Organization (CSO)
- Non-Governmental Organization (NGO)
UN-SDG
- SDG 4 Quality Education
- SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
- SDG 9 Industry Innovation and Infrastructure
- SDG 10 Reduced Inequality
- SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
- SDG 16 Peace Justice and Strong Institutions
- SDG 17 Partnerships to Achieve the Goals
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