Systemic Reflections on Global Trade

11/21/2017

In June 2016, the World Economic Forum issued a document called "Systems Leadership and Platform Engagement Opportunities". The document was written to promote our aspiration to use a systemic approach while working to close the many gaps that exist in global systems today from trade to long-term investment, from healthcare to food security, or from energy to natural resource security and the environment. After my training on systems practice by the Omidyar Network, I will be attempting to merge the Forum's aspiration with the mindsets, processes and tools that I learned. What follows is an initial reflection on trade supported by its corresponding systems map.

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Victor Padilla-Taylor is Director at the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale. He was the 2021 recipient of the Linda Lorimer Award for Distinguished Service, conferred by Yale’s president on staff who have demonstrated their commitment to innovative thinking and the educational and research missions of the university. He also serves as board leader at Global Consortium for Entrepreneurship Centers, Long Wharf Theatre, Yale SOM Alumni Advisory Board, and Saint Thomas More Chapel and Center at Yale University. For his accomplishments as alumni volunteer, he received the 2023 Yale Alumni Leadership Award for his service and innovative leadership as nominated and selected by alumni relations staff members.

Previously, he was a Global Leadership Fellow at the World Economic Forum. His work included articulating and managing key agreements for private sector, government and academic stakeholders responding to major challenges such as scaling global trade for products and services and responding to sudden-onset humanitarian crises. He was also manager for the Global Future Council on Mobility, which met yearly in Dubai to bring together the world's foremost multistakeholder and interdisciplinary knowledge network dedicated to shaping a more resilient, inclusive and sustainable future.

Prior to joining the Forum, he held strategic positions with trading firms in Latin America for more than 10 years to optimize their worldwide operations, information systems, and mergers and acquisitions. He was also responsible for the execution of large commodity contracts between private and public sector organizations, and governments from USA, Europe, and Asia. In his previous role as corporate development manager for a family-owned conglomerate, he led international teams executing new multimillion USD investments across industry verticals such as chemicals, precision agriculture and transportation.

Padilla-Taylor is a Master of Advanced Management graduate from Yale University. He holds an MBA from Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, an Executive Master's in Global Leadership from World Economic Forum, and a Chemical and Industrial Engineering degree. He also is a trained coach with Coactive Training Institute. In his adoptive country, Guatemala, he was captain for the Men's National Basketball Team.

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