{"id":2597,"date":"2020-09-16T05:55:15","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T10:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biz.golamfaruque.com\/?p=2597"},"modified":"2021-02-11T07:47:13","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T12:47:13","slug":"paola-isaac-baraya-economic-development-specialist-international-trade-broward-county-office-of-economic-and-small-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biz.jaffreyalam.com\/?p=2597","title":{"rendered":"Paola Isaac Baraya Economic Development Specialist International Trade Broward County Office of Economic and Small Business"},"content":{"rendered":"

P<\/strong>aola Isaac Baraya is the Economic Development Specialist-International Trade at the Broward County\u2019s Office of Economic and Small Business Development. Ms. Isaac\u2019s role involves educating Broward businesses on exporting and developing as well as implementing international trade policies and strategies to further the County\u2019s position as a global center within the South Florida Region and within the United States. Ms. Isaac\u2019s assists Broward County businesses to reach global markets through signature seminar series such as the Export Readiness Seminar, the 11 Steps to Exporting \u2013 A Roadmap to your Exporting Success, Doing Business with the World, Florida Export Opportunities in International Markets and one of the largest annual conference for international trade in the State of Florida called the Florida International Trade and Cultural Expo (FITCE) that she has been organizing for 5 years.\"\" Her role also involves organizing international trade missions, strengthening worldwide partnerships for the County and acting as protocol officer for international affairs for the Mayor as well as the County\u2019s Board of Commissioners.
\nPrior to working at the County, Ms. Isaac worked as International Business Manager for the Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance, the public\/private official economic development organization for Broward County, where she attracted numerous companies from around the world to the County creating hundreds of high-paying jobs in target industry sectors and brought millions of dollars in capital investment.
\nMs. Isaac was also Executive Office Director and Board Member of Greater Fort Lauderdale Sister Cities International where she was instrumental in maintaining the organization activities with its 18 sister cities around the world and assisted the organization to win two national awards with the Sister Cities Headquarters in Washington D.C.
\nIn 2019, Ms. Isaac\u2019s work at Broward County\u2019s Office of Economic and Small Business Development was recognized through the \u201cPresident\u2019s E Award for Export Service\u201d, the highest honor by Executive Order of the President for contribution to the expansion of U.S. exports, and the National Association of Counties \u201cNACo Achievement Award\u201d for the 11 Steps to Exporting. In 2015, Ms. Isaac was also recipient of the \u201cDistinguished Woman of Year\u201d Award presented by the Lauderhill Chamber of Commerce and the \u201cInternational Promoter of the Year\u2019 Award by the Global Trade Chamber. Lastly, in 2013, Ms. Isaac was recipient of the \u201cInternational Business Woman of Year\u201d award in the Service Category presented to her by the Founder of Angie\u2019s List at the Organization of Women in International Trade\u2019s (OWIT) Annual Awards Luncheon. \"\"
\nBorn in Montreal, Canada, Ms. Isaac holds a Bachelors Degree of Commerce from McGill University and a Masters of Science in Business Administration from the University of Montreal (HEC) where she published her thesis: \u201cEffects of Mall Atmospherics on Perceptions, Emotions and Approach-avoidance Behaviors Moderated by a Shoppers’ Typology in Different Shopping Mall Formats\u201d and were she was featured on the cover on the Montreal Gazette for
\nMs. Isaac is fluent in French, Italian, Spanish and has some understanding of German and Portuguese.\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paola Isaac Baraya is the Economic Development Specialist-International Trade at the Broward County\u2019s Office of Economic and Small Business Development. Ms. Isaac\u2019s role involves educating Broward businesses on exporting and developing as well as implementing international trade policies and strategies to further the County\u2019s position as a global center within the South Florida Region and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biz.jaffreyalam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biz.jaffreyalam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biz.jaffreyalam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biz.jaffreyalam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biz.jaffreyalam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/biz.jaffreyalam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2602,"href":"https:\/\/biz.jaffreyalam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597\/revisions\/2602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biz.jaffreyalam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biz.jaffreyalam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biz.jaffreyalam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biz.jaffreyalam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}