Tim Stekkinger leads the World Economic Forum’s global work on digital trade and TradeTech, driving collaboration across governments, industry, and technology partners to make international trade more open, efficient, and inclusive.

At the Forum, Tim advances the organization’s broader Digital Trade agenda, including flagship initiatives such as the TradeTech Global Initiative (in partnership with the UAE Government), PAGA – Digital Payments for All, DEAL, and GSRI, which aims to strengthen humanitarian supply chains. He also contributes to the Forum’s wider efforts on ASEAN DEAL (DEFA capacity building) and the Hiroshima AI Process. Together, these initiatives support a vision of global trade that is both technologically advanced and socially equitable.

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Before joining the Forum, Tim held leadership roles at DSV Financial Services, the DSV Innovation Hub, and served as Vice President at Panalpina, a Swiss freight forwarder. A former entrepreneur, he also served as Chairman of VineView, a leading Canadian agri-tech startup.

Tim began his career in banking, spending over a decade at Rabobank and ABN AMRO in the Netherlands, where he held management roles at the intersection of technology and business, driving innovation and developing new financial solutions.

He holds a Master’s degree in International Business Administration from the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, and a Bachelor’s degree in Business from the University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands.