UK Governments  Appoints a British Nigeria as its Trade Envoy to Nigeria

The British Prime Minister who is saddled with the responsibility of appointing UK Trade Envoys has appointed Helen Grant MP, a British-Nigeria, as the new Trade Envoy to Nigeria.

The new UK trade envoy role is to make necessary preparations that will enhance the UK Government’s trade and investment priorities in Nigeria, and maintain a high-level engagement with Nigerian Ministers, by engaging in key businesses that will promote bilateral trade and lead trade delegations.

UK Trade Envoys are expected to promote trade for UK businesses in developing markets with high-growth in the world, and also give support to the UK’s Department of International Trade.

The new UK Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy to Nigeria, Helen Grant speaking on her appointment, she said;

“I am absolutely delighted with my appointment as the Prime Minister’s UK Trade Envoy to Nigeria.  Both countries are close to my heart, my father being Nigerian and my mother English.  Now I have an opportunity to employ my rich dual heritage to help magnify an already strong UK–Nigerian relationship for our mutual prosperity.

As the largest and fastest-growing economy on the African continent, the potential for trade and investment with Nigeria is stunning.  I will do my utmost to help develop that as part of our nation’s collective drive toward an outward-looking global Britain.”

Helen Grant was born in London to a British mother and a Nigerian father, a graduate of law, from the University of Hull. She is married with two sons.

Since the inception of the program in 2012, Helen is the second UK Trade Envoy to Nigeria after John Howell MP.