Contributors Acknowledgements We would like to thank the team at the Ministry of Economy and Yasar Jarrar, Racha Mourtada and Barkha Shah for their review, as well as the following contributors who provided input or feedback: Miishe Addy Chief Executive Officer, Jetstream Africa, Ghana Paul Baker Chief Executive Officer, International Economics Consulting John Bescec Director, Customs and Trade Affairs, Microsoft Mariana Bock-Losada Chief Growth Officer, Digital Container Shipping Association Laetitia Cailleteau Managing Director, Accenture, United Kingdom Noura Al Dhaheri Chief Executive Officer, Maqta Technologies Group and Digital Cluster, AD Ports Group Thomas Fahey Associate Director, Supply Chain and Operations, Accenture Xiuju Fu Senior Principal Scientist, Institute of High Performance Computing, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)Emmanuelle Ganne Senior Analyst, Economic Research and Statistics Division, World Trade Organization (WTO) Baghdad Gherras Chief Digital Officer, Medad Holding, United Arab Emirates Puay Guan Goh Associate Professor and Academic Director, MSc Smart Industries and Digital Transformation, NUS Business School Rebecca Harding Strategic Trade Advisor and Analyst, Rebeccanomics Peng Jiang Associate Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Sichuan University Sebastian Klotz Manager, Trade, Sustainability, and Technology, PricewaterhouseCoopers Paul Klimos General Counsel, Provable Jeppe Kobberø Director and Head of Implementation Customs AI, DSVLead authors Alexandre Marchand Specialist, TradeTech, World Economic Forum Jimena Sotelo Lead, TradeTech, World Economic Forum World Economic Forum Mario Canales Specialist, TradeTech Sean Doherty Head, International Trade and Investment Nitin Sharma Lead, Digital Trade and Venture, TradeTech Tim Stekkinger Head, TradeTech We would like to thank colleagues in the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, namely Karla Yee Amezaga, Maria Basso and Benjamin Larsen for their review. Artificial Intelligence for Efficiency, Sustainability and Inclusivity in TradeTech 33

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