{"id":91297,"date":"2018-04-23T14:01:34","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T14:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=fe006189f571383b7448c527ec31ecf4"},"modified":"2018-04-23T14:01:34","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T14:01:34","slug":"news-story-dr-liam-fox-welcomes-city-chief-as-director-general-for-exports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=91297","title":{"rendered":"News story: Dr Liam Fox welcomes City chief as Director General for Exports"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>This new position is at the heart of the government\u2019s post-Brexit trading plan, and is tasked with ensuring that new and existing exporters can access the right financial, practical and promotional support to sell overseas.<\/p>\n<p>The international demand for British goods and services has never been stronger, with exports from the UK rising more than 12% to \u00a3622.1 billion in 2017. Mahon\u2019s work will be crucial in ensuring UK companies are well placed to take advantage of these opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>One of his first tasks will be to oversee the UK\u2019s emerging <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/export-strategy-terms-of-reference\">Export Strategy<\/a>, ensuring that firms of all sizes have the right support from government to do business around the world.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image embedded\">\n<div class=\"img\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.publishing.service.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/image_data\/file\/74193\/IMG_1680_1__2_.JPG\" alt=\"Left to Right: Dr Liam Fox, Antonia Romeo, and John Mahon.\"><\/div><figcaption>Left to Right: Dr Liam Fox, Antonia Romeo, and John Mahon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Speaking at a City Week 2018 event later today, International Trade Secretary Dr Liam Fox will say:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><abbr title=\"Department for International Trade\">DIT<\/abbr> listens to industry experts. This is especially true in financial services.<\/p>\n<p>It is no coincidence that today John Mahon, former Head of Barclays Corporate Bank, starts his new role as our new Director General for Exports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I am delighted to welcome John on the team and look forward to the wealth of experience that he will bring to the role.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Barclays Corporate Bank Head, John Mahon, starts his new role as the UK\u2019s Director General for Exports today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}