The Trade and Business Development Body , trading as InterTradeIreland, (Irish

Irish language

Irish , also known as Irish Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people. Irish is now spoken as a first language by a minority of Irish people, as well as being a second language of a larger proportion of...

: IdirThrádáilÉireann; Ulster-Scots: NifferinMercatAirlann) is one of the six all-Ireland

Ireland

Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

 bodies set up following the Belfast Agreement

Belfast Agreement

The Good Friday Agreement or Belfast Agreement , sometimes called the Stormont Agreement, was a major political development in the Northern Ireland peace process...

 reporting to the North/South Ministerial Council

North/South Ministerial Council

The North/South Ministerial Council is a body established under the Belfast Agreement to co-ordinate activity and exercise certain governmental powers across the whole island of Ireland...

. The body manages and implements programmes to build networks and partnerships on the Island. The organisation works in areas such as Science, Technology & Innovation, Sales & Marketing, Business Capability Improvement, Business Networks and Business & Economic Research.

Its mission is: '"...of a globally competitive enterprise environment in which Ireland and Northern Ireland co-operate to enhance their respective economic performance and competitiveness through the exploitation of synergies to drive additional internal and external trade and wealth creation.

Board

InterTradeIreland's current board (as of September 2011) are:

• Chair David Dobbin
• Vice Chair John Fitzgerald
• Brendan Butler
• Ray Doherty
• Jack Gilmour
• Hugh Logue
• Patricia McKeown
• Dr William Gerard O'Hare CBE
• Tom Scott OBE
• Vincent Parker