Dev Chamroo (Ile Maurice / Mauritius)

Dev Chamroo is a Senior Consultant at CITC Ltd, a boutique consultancy firm that provides strategic advice to governments, development partners, international institutions, the private sector, and NGOs.

Dev is an international trade and investment specialist with over 30 years of experience in promoting foreign direct investment, developing export markets, negotiating trade and investment agreements, policy reform, and promoting regional integration.
Dev is the former CEO of Enterprise Mauritius, the National Trade Promotion Agency of Mauritius and an ex-Director of Investment Promotion, Facilitation, and Policy Advocacy of the Board of Investment, the focal point for all investments in Mauritius.

Dev is presently working with 16 government agencies in Africa to develop the export readiness of their small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and in promoting intra-African investment. He is also developing a SADC Regional Trade Development & Promotion framework. Concurrently, he is elaborating the EPA Export Promotion Strategy for 6 African countries, as well as preparing the successor strategy of the National Export Strategy of Malawi.

His clients include the African Development Bank, Southern African Development Community, Agence Française de Développement, United States Agency for International Development, South African Trade Hub, African Cotton and Textile Industries Federation, International Trade Centre, HIVOS, Equity Bank Kenya, Ministry of Industry of Tanzania, International Trade Center– Geneva, Association Afrique
Agro Export, Ministry of Finance of Cape Verde, Business Botswana, Commonwealth, amongst others.

Dev holds a Master’s Degree (M.A. Hons) in economics from Punjab University of India and an MBA from the University of Mauritius. He is presently also a part-time lecturer at the University of Mauritius.