Paul Taylor has been UKTI's Regional Director for Central & Eastern Europe since September 2011. In addition to managing UKTI’s network of 60 staff based in 9 Embassies across the region, Paul’s responsibilities include design and delivery of the Emerging Europe business plan, including promotional campaigns, and for the relationship management of major UK investors in the CEE. Paul's Government career spans UKTI, the Department for Business and the Foreign & Commonwealth Office. Prague is his fourth overseas job, following trade & investment positions in Mexico City, Santiago and Madrid. Previous UK-based responsibilities include the Middle East and North Africa and Latin America. Before entering Government, Paul worked for the International Red Cross and ran his own business in Spain.
For three years now, I have led UKTI’s Central Europe Network – 62 trade and investment specialists working out of nine British Embassies in the region (Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia and Croatia). Throughout that …
Today, ‘Emerging Europe Week’ gets underway at the International Festival for Business in Liverpool. Over the course of five busy days, UKTI’s Central Europe Network (which comprises nine countries stretching from Poland in the north to Croatia in the south, …
If you are on the look-out for international retail opportunities, then Central Europe could be a better bet than some of the more traditional European retail markets. So says Jones Lang LaSalle’s ‘Destination Europe 2013 research into the presence across …
There is a growing appetite for British food & drink products in Emerging Europe. Poland is already established among the UK’s top dozen food & drink export markets globally; while exports to the nine countries making up UKTI’s Central Europe …
