Nextrade Group formed in 2013 helps governments, multilateral development banks, leading technology companies and industry associations enable trade and economic growth through technology. We have been hired by over 60 clients, most of them multiple repeats, on dozens of occasions to ideate, architect, and build policy-relevant data products, analytics, and advocacy materials.
Our vision is a world where any business anywhere can grow through trade and technology and crossborder trade flows frictionless, end-to-end.
Our mission is to enable our clients to reach their goals to drive technology adoption and trade through world-class research, policy ideas, and partnerships.
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Nextrade started by working on digital trade policy issues, but we have since, thanks to client demand, branched to work on a wide range of policy issues, from AI and cloud policy to digital competition policy, online content, data privacy and transfer, digital payments, ecommerce, and digital infrastructures. We work globally, in Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, Middle East, and Africa. This breadth enables us to identify emerging policy issues globally and draw on policies and good practices elsewhere in the world when developing policy responses. In addition to supporting government affairs teams, we also support our clients’ go-to-market initiatives and business development teams, to bring clients’ technologies to create new value in key trade-related markets, such as logistics or transport.
We have also implemented several development projects to enable developing country businesses to use technologies to like ecommerce and AI to grow their sales and export, and created and built seven global public-private partnerships with leading companies, international organizations, and governments to advance the use of technologies and standards that facilitate trade and ecommerce. These include USAID’s first public-private partnership in ecommerce development, the Alliance for eTrade Development comprising 16 companies, and the Prosper Africa Tech for Trade Alliance with 20 companies and the U.S. Government’s Prosper Africa initiative. We also ideated and were subsequently asked by the United Nations to build the eTrade for All Initiative, now championed by the UN together with over 30 global companies and agencies. We are currently developing an AI Alliance with our clients.
Our clients include Amazon, AWS, UPS, Google, eBay, Visa, Mastercard, FedEx, Magento, Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA), World Bank Group, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, ADB Institute, APEC Secretariat, U.S. Agency for International Development, AusAID, the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT), the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), the U.S. Departments of State and Commerce, UNCTAD, UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), Hinrich Foundation, Asia-Pacific Foundation of Canada, UN ECLAC, Palladium Group, DAI, OCO Global, Carana Corporation, Korefusion, Central American Regional Center for the Promotion of MSMEs (Cenpromype), the Institute for the Integration of Latin America and the Caribbean, Association of Caribbean States (ACS), East African Community Secretariat (EAC), European Institute for eCommerce Management, ConnectAmericas, Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, the South African Institute for International Affairs, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the Bush Institute, the Brookings Institution and Center for a New American Security, and the Peterson Institute for International Economics. We have also collaborated with the World Economic Forum.
Nextrade’s work is creative, rigorous, applied, and actionable. Our technical expertise spans quantitative and qualitative data collection, management, and analysis; survey design and fieldwork; dashboard and data visualization development; statistical and econometric analysis; and the creation of data pipelines, indices, and analytics. We have managed complex, data-driven projects and public-private partnerships, and worked closely with senior leaders across client organizations. Our team has also presented findings on clients’ behalf to minister- and CEO-level policy and business leaders worldwide.