Geneviève Abbott is Executive Director of the Catalonia Trade & Investment in Canada, a position she has held since 2007. As such, she has helped hundreds of Catalan companies establish trade, technology, and investment relations with Canadian businesses in numerous sectors, in addition to facilitating Canadian business interests in Catalonia. She has an International MBA from the Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto. Prior to that, she worked at one of the leading Canadian engineering consultancy firms, as well as for the Canadian Trade Commissioner Service in Guadalajara, Mexico as a market analyst.