Fantino Polanco

Vice Minister of Industrial Development

Ministry of Industry, Trade and SMEs

Biography:

Fantino Polanco, Vice Minister of Industrial Development at the Ministry of Industry, Trade and SMSs of the Dominican Republic. Lawyer graduated from PUCMM in Santiago in 2004. Four master’s degrees in international business law from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), in Corporate Business Law from PUCMM, in international relations from I-GLOBAL and in High Public Management at the National School of Public Administration of France (L’ENA). 12 years of technical experience in the Dominican Republic’s government, serving as coordinator of the industries area of ​​the National Competitiveness Council (CNC) and as a member of the Plenary of the Trade Defense Commission (CDC). Had worked on and is a specialist in regulation and formulation of public policies for the industrial manufacturing sector. Since 2009, have taught at the PUCMM University in Santiago. Since 2021 has been a teacher and academic collaborator at the Barna Management School. In the public sector from 2016 to 2020, have taught at the Diplomatic School, the National Statistics School, Proindustria, the MICM and the MEPYD. In my role as Vice Minister of MICM, I have promoted the actions framed in the National Industrialization Plan and have played a key role in the approval and implementation of the National Quality Policy 2021-2024.”

Nicole Griensewic

Executive Director

Region Nine Development Commission in Minnesota

Biografy:

Griensewic has served as Executive Director of Region Nine Development Commission since 2012. As executive director, Griensewic has made it a priority to foster collaboration and engagement by sharing Region Nine’s story both regionally and globally. Griensewic is an active board and committee member for multiple organizations throughout Minnesota. Griensewic is the immediate past President of the Greater Minnesota Partnership, and is the first female to chair the Executive Committee for the University of Minnesota’s Center for Transportation Studies, where she served as chair of the Governance Committee. Griensewic also served as secretary of Lutheran Social Services of Minnesota’s Governing Board of Directors and chaired the Governance Committee and currently serves as an advisory board member for South Central College’s Center for Agriculture. She serves on the executive committee for the MACS Board, Minnesotans for the American Community Survey Board of Directors and represents the Midwest on the National Assoc. of Development Orgs.’s (NADO) Board of Directors.

Griensewic is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and has completed course work through Harvard’s Kennedy School’s Executive Education. She received the 2017 Outstanding Recent Alumnus Award from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.

Her professional background includes extensive private sector and non-profit leadership experience.

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