Accredited Commercial Diplomat
Why Become an Accredited Commercial Diplomat?

• By enhancing their employability with an international qualification, certification and accreditation, practitioners will be distinguishing themselves as standout candidates in the global market.
• By improving their skills-specific knowledge on advocating responsible commercial diplomacy, advising on related-relevant sector-specific services and or counselling clients with cross-border operations and commercial diplomatic services, they will be building their extraterritorial presence in the commercial diplomatic sector-specific services and market.
• By gaining new skills-based commercial-judicial diplomatic knowledge and techniques to benefit their personal and professional specialism-based expertise and development, they will be improving their earning and practicing potential as an extraterritorially qualified, recognised, certified and accredited commercial diplomat.

Preparation Programme and Essential Examinations

• The MQCP Preparation Programme has been designed to prepare prospective practitioner-candidates for the MQCE Essential Examinations. 
• Prospective, aspiring and existing experienced unaccredited professionals will have the opportunity to cover a range of core related-relevant sector-specific topics and to specialise in commercial diplomatic practice, depending on eligibility, suitability and qualification.
• The MQCP Preparation Programme has been developed specifically for prospective practitioners and experienced participating-professionals, to be delivered by ACCD-CDRA's approved vocational education and training providers.

The Committed Commercial Diplomat(ist)s
In addition, it requires an in-depth knowledge of commercial and macroeconomic analysis of policy issues ranging from health and the environment to the prudential supervision of insurance, contemporary international investment policy-making, social responsibility, the prevention of corruption, the politics of trade and foreign investment, national trade laws and global trade rules, international arbitration and public diplomacy. Commercial Diplomats are committed members of a new unique class of professionals in an appropriately regulated unique profession. Being a recognised and qualified, an approved, authorised, accredited, registered and appropriately regulated commercial diplomat requires all the finesse, skills-based knowledge and specialisms-based expertise of international trade-related policy and traditional, commercial and judicial diplomacy. 

As accredited commercial diplomats, they are regulated under the Commercial Diplomatic Code which incorporates all these applicable adopted rules. These specialist practitioners are highly-disciplined, integrity-driven, highly-proficient and highly-influential members of the new uniquely dynamic class of learned accomplished professionals that bring proven significant practical wealth of experience from across a diverse range and spectrum of related-relevant sector-specific services.

The accredited commercial diplomat will have acquired the necessary skills and techniques, and learn the multi-disciplinary approach to responsible commercial diplomatic leadership, and get equipped to deal with the demands of the more challenging, burdensome, complex, and disruptive trade, investment and commerce-related environment of the future.

The effective engagements, communications and connections by the commercial diplomat, through diplomatic institutions, missions and other offices should help in liaising consistently with the principals in related-relevant sector-specific institutions and services, especially international trade and investment, commerce and industry, agriculture and natural resources, maritime services, foreign trade relations, and other diplomatic sectors. In addition to all these, the status as commercial diplomat or commercial diplomat-in-chief should allow for outreach into all economies.

In addition to policy analysis, facilitation, negotiation, promotion and advocacy issues, arbitration and mediation functions also comprise a significant aspect of the commercial diplomat's remit, particularly with regard to the resolution, settlement and management of international trade, investment and commerce-related disputes, the promotion of trade and investment, commerce and industry, agriculture and natural resources (including agricultural products), maritime affairs opportunities are central to the purpose of appointing or having a high-ranking official in the rank of accredited commercial diplomat or commercial diplomat-in-chief as representative of State, multinational corporation, multilateral organization, diplomatic institution or central, commercial, investment and regional banks in all regions.

The Title - Commercial Diplomat
The new uniquely dynamic class of career commercial diplomats have emerged from the requirements for policy coordination and negotiation among nations on issues affecting global trade, investment, commerce and international arbitration. Their vocational training-related comprehensive learning has been haphazard at best and has relied largely on a defacto apprenticeship system that generates neither enough qualified nor sufficiently well-trained professionals, highly-skilled specialists, highly-competent advocates and highly-influential experts.

This gap between the demand and supply of appropriately examined, qualified, certified, accredited and better impactfully regulated career commercial diplomats has to be met through dedicated vocational training-related comprehensive learning programmes, which are focused on the skills-specific knowledge and specialism-based expertise required of high-quality and highly-talented competent professionals in the commercial diplomatic field.  

Another, but very significant consideration is that the title 'Commercial Diplomat' is a generic term and there is nothing to stop anyone identifying themselves as 'Commercial Diplomat' which, consequentially, does not distinguish the highly-skilled, highly-proficient, integrity-inspired, highly-competent and highly-influential accredited practitioner from the unskilled, incompetent, unqualified, and unsuitable, and this could be detrimental.

The need and demand for high-performing sector, highly-knowledgeable experts, highly-trained specialists, highly-qualified practitioners, highly-skilled advocates and appropriately authorised, accredited and better regulated highly-competent diplomatists with the relevant skills will grow.  Commercial Diplomacy has had significantly important impacts on the global economy and ensured development of effective cooperation through international trade policy and negotiation, international investment policy for development, international commerce and international arbitration, and the Commercial Diplomatic sector.

Regulation of Commercial Diplomats and Commercial Diplomatic Practice
Association of Certified Commercial Diplomats is the independent, not-for-profit and extraterritorial rules-based representative body and global voice of the commercial diplomatic profession, and only extraterritorial rules-based regulatory authority that provides a wide range of qualification, certification and accreditation options, which are tailored to recognize seasoned highly-skilled, highly-knowledgeable, highly-experienced, highly-competent and highly-influential accomplished learned career commercial diplomats, including international trade policy practitioners alike.

Independent and Self-Regulatory
Behind every trade, investment and commerce-related policy analysis, facilitation of mutually beneficial cross-border cooperation and sustainable strategic collaborative partnership, negotiation of policies and agreements or treaties, promotion of goods and services between economies or multinational corporations, the resolution, settlement and management of disputes in international trade, investment, and commerce, and other related-relevant sector-specific services that bring together senior civil, public-private and foreign commercial diplomatic service officials involved in commercial-judicial diplomatic activities, are distinguished individuals that make them happen:

• All these services are provided by accredited commercial diplomats, under the adopted related-relevant and applicable rules, models, conventions, frameworks, mechanisms and standards which are incorporated into the Commercial Diplomatic Code by which all accredited practitioners are regulated.