
Kati Suominen
E-Commerce Expert of Palladium / NextTrade / USAID’s Future Growth Initia
Dr. Kati Suominen is Founder and CEO of Nextrade Group, a Los Angeles-based data and analytics company that helps governments, multilateral development banks, and Fortune 500 technology companies enable trade through technology worldwide. Nextrade has also ideated and built with leading corporations and development agencies eight global and regional public-private partnerships to digitize trade and ecommerce development. Dr. Suominen is the author and editor of 10 peer-reviewed books about trade, globalization and technologies in trade, most recently Revolutionizing World Trade: How Disruptive Technologies Open Opportunities for All (Stanford University Press, 2019).