Ana Bertha Gutiérrez

Foreign Trade and Jobs Market Coordinator

Mexican Institute for Competitiveness (IMCO)

Biography:

Ana Bertha Gutiérrez Jiménez, Foreign Trade and Jobs Market Coordinator, Mexican Institute for Competitiveness (IMCO).

She currently manages two areas and two competitiveness monitors that track current employment and trade figures. She actively coordinates and participates in the creation of studies and publications on USMCA, the Mexican employment outlook and trade figures. She also assists in the elaboration of the International Competitiveness Index.

She was previously the Research Coordinator at México, ¿cómo vamos?, a think tank focused on monitoring national and state economic figures.

She is an economist with a degree from the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM). She has taken courses on foreign trade, trade agreements and the Mexico-United States bilateral relationship.

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.