Interview : Jorge Daccarett (AGCI)

He is an Industrial and Civil Engineer, who graduated from the Pontificia Universidad Católica, Chile, and holds an MBA from the Universidad Adolfo Ibañez. He is currently the Executive Director of the Chilean International Cooperation Agency (Agencia de Cooperación Internacional de Chile - AGCI). Before that, he worked for international companies and non-profits in Chile, Argentina and Spain, and is the founder of the ChileArab consulting firm. He has fostered business relationships between Chile and the Middle East in investment and trade, leading also a process of cooperation with Palestine from the Chilean-Arabic private sector, in health and education. Jorge Daccarett was advisor to ProChile and Uruguay XXI in the topic of Arabic and Islamic markets, and developed the Halal certification programme in Chile, together with SOFOFA and COFRO. From his position at AGCI, he has promoted Chile’s role in South-South and Triangular Cooperation as a panelist at Chatham House and OECD, among others. He holds the international business Chair at Universidad de Los Andes and was a columnist for La Segunda newspaper.