Chris Moran is the Director General of the Trade Portfolio Strategy and Coordination Bureau in the International Business Development Branch of Global Affairs Canada. She is responsible for portfolio governance (Export Development Canada and the Canadian Commercial Corporation), corporate social responsibility policy and operations, free trade agreement promotion, continuous improvement within the Canadian Trade Commissioner Service and horizontal policy issues. Chris has extensive experience in trade policy development (SPS, TBT) and strategic agricultural policy and has served as a Canadian negotiator in multilateral and bilateral negotiations. She has led federal negotiations with provinces and territories addressing cost overruns in agricultural programming and on performance measurement frameworks for the agricultural policy framework. She served as a trade commissioner in Chicago, Illinois, and was the executive director of the Grain Growers of Canada.