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"....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

 

 Accredited Commercial Diplomats: A New Emerging Uniquely Dynamic Class of Regulated Career Professionals 

RECOGNITION OF ABILITY, INTEGRITY AND COMPETENCE
The commercial diplomat requires all the finesse and knowledge of foreign cultures required by a traditional diplomat. In addition, the commercial diplomat must acquire a wide range of analytical, policy advocacy and interpersonal, critical thinking, public diplomacy, anti-corruption, negotiating and commercial diplomatic skills.

To qualify for accreditation, the applicant must complete the required mandatory qualifying programme. While attaining QPA, QCD or C.Dipl is a challenge, it allows practitioners to remain current with what is new in the commercial diplomatic profession and field of practice, and to incorporate the latest advanced research techniques into their specialism-based expertise and competency-based practices.

Practitioners in any of the advanced mandatory qualifying programmes are preparing themselves for careers in which they will likely be given supervisory or executive responsibilities at senior executive level. They are expected to maintain integrity, demonstrate maturity, civility, probity, exceptional quality, self-discipline and ethical behaviour throughout the period of their Mastership and career. The ACCD-CDRA may cancel a practitioner-candidates application at any time for conduct deemed inconsistent with the integrity expected of an accomplished learned accredited commercial diplomatist. 

Globally-focused and Carefully Structured
The Mandatory Qualifying Competency Programmes give practitioner-candidates the flexibility to expand their skills-based knowledge and skills-specific experience while pursuing their commercial diplomatic career. The strong desire to add a global perspective to a practitioner-candidate's current qualification makes such practitioner an excellent candidate for the Mandatory Qualifying Competency Programmes.

Mandatory Qualifying Programme
Mandatory Qualifying Competency Programme is the most rigorous continuing professional training programme for the career commercial diplomat. A commercial diplomat who has qualified and earned the QPA, QCD or C.Dipl designation has successfully completed a structured mandatory qualifying competency-based examinations (MQCE Essential Examinations) and demanding set of requirements involving aII the required disciplines and proven practical hands-on professional commercial diplomatic experience. 

The aim of the qualifying provisions is to provide for the better impactful regulation and standardization of career commercial diplomats, and to bring them in line with the rest of the global professional institutions and institutional bodies. Only those who can fulfil the criteria of skills-specific knowledge, specialism-based expertise, evidence-based proficiency, competency, dedication, good standing and advanced professional development shall qualify for admission into the commercial diplomatic profession and appointment to the rank and status of, QPA, QCD or C.Dipl, and be referred to as, 'Commercial Diplomatic Advocate', 'Commercial Diplomatic Counsel', or 'Commercial Diplomat Plenipotentiary'. This in sense provides the 'bench mark' for the competent career commercial diplomatist.

Qualifying as an Accredited Commercial Diplomat 

What does an advanced and accomplished learned accredited commercial diplomat look like in action
The ACCD-CDRA aims to explain how its compact and extraterritorialized commercial diplomatic profession is creating emerging practitioners and empowering commercial diplomatists in all jurisdictions, economies and broader regions.

Symbol of Competency for Career Commercial Diplomats
Mandatory Qualifying Programme
MQCP Mandatory Qualifying Programme is the most rigorous continuing professional training programme for practitioners of commercial diplomacy. A career commercial diplomat who has qualified and earned the designation 'Qualified Policy Advocate', 'Qualified Certified Diplomat', 'Accredited Commercial Diplomat' has completed a structured and demanding set of requirements involving aII the required disciplines and projects. 

The aim of the Qualifying provisions is to provide for the regulation of qualified career commercial diplomats and to bring them in line with the rest of the global professional bodies. Only those who can fulfil the criteria of knowledge, competence, dedication, good standing and advanced professional development shall be recognized, accredited and be referred to as 'Qualified Policy Advocate', 'Qualified Certified Diplomat', or 'Accredited Commercial Diplomat'. 

Symbol of Proficiency
Qualified Policy Advocate, Qualified Certified Diplomat and Accredited Commercial Diplomat Certified statuses (QPA, QCD or C.Dipl) is conferred only by the ACCD-CDRA, being the pioneer professional body for commercial diplomats and the commercial diplomatic profession, with the pioneering statutory rights and plenipotentiary regulatory powers to examine, qualify, certify, call to practice, admit to the profession, accredit and register practitioners who have successfully completed the Mandatory Qualifying Programmes, being the main category of professional accreditation denoting a level of professional achievement required through specialised vocational training-related comprehensive learning, mandatory qualifying competency-based examinations, proven impeccable integrity, significant practical hands-on professional experience, and key skills-specific knowledge at higher advanced level.

QPA, QCD or C.Dipl is, and shall be regarded as a symbol of integrity, professionalism, standards, proficiency, competency and professional achievement widely respected in all jurisdictions, economies and broader regions by governments, inter-governmental organizations and other employers. 

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QPA, QCD and C.Dipl are uniquely qualified, competent, and are skilled practitioners with complete knowledge, integrity and proven ability at advanced and postqualification levels. 

They are professionally accredited, authorised and appropriately recommended to practice and train others at all levels. 

As the primary standards authority for practicing career commercial diplomats, the ACCD-CDRA works closely with acceptable global institutional regulatory authorities and bodies, and diplomatic and academic institutions to ensure that practitioner-candidates have the appropriate skills-based knowledge and specialism-based expertise to qualify for professional accreditation.

Whether prospective, aspiring and existing experienced unaccredited professionals are looking to upskill or new to the commercial diplomatic sector-specific profession, practice, service and or industry, the ACCD-CDRA approved vocational education and training-related comprehensive learning modules in the modular-courses are specifically designed and aimed at providing the foundation to contribute to a sustainable future while advancing their commercial diplomatic skills-specific knowledge, specialism-based expertise and competency-based career.

In the commercial diplomatic profession, no time is regarded as being too late to commence the MQCP Preparation Programme. In a globalised world, seasoned commercial diplomatic practitioners need to be at the forefront of trade and investment, commerce and industry, agriculture and natural resources, economic, political, and corporate developments. 

For prospective, aspiring and existing experienced unaccredited practitioners, qualifying as an accredited commercial diplomat is required to prepare practitioners for these and other related-relevant developments, by enhancing their suitability, integrity-driven representatory policy-making capability, skills-based knowledge and providing them with a wealth of meaningful career opportunities in the commercial diplomatic sector.

Why Become an Accredited Commercial Diplomat?

QCD Accreditation Requirements

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