Paul Howorth Advisory Services
TRADE | INVESTMENT | DEVELOPMENT | IMPACT
I design and support system-level interventions across trade, investment, development and impact. I use systems-thinking, digital and AI tools to help you to find and leverage the interconnections between these activities.
Services
Trade Facilitation
In trade, my focus is on supporting the design and implementation of agreements, frameworks and policies, particularly in the professional and other regulated services domain. I have a particular interest in making sure MSMEs and individuals can participate in services trade opportunities.
Investment Strategy
In investment, my focus is on identifying where and how investment can unlock opportunities for participation in services trade and related development. I specialise in exploring where investment can also be leveraged for broader impact, such as environmental and social outcomes.
Development Planning
In development, my focus is on helping communities, cities and regions explore new pathways to more regenerative, innovation-led development, particularly via global interconnections through trade and investment. Places are where the benefits of trade are experienced and given life.
Impact Delivery
In impact, my focus is on designing and building structures that can scale up and accelerate the achievement of impactful investment. The direct benefits of trade and investment can drive broader positive impacts, but this needs to be purposefully designed and not left to chance.
About
I work at the intersections of international trade, impact investing, and regional development to shift how economic and social systems work for people, SMEs, and places. My background combines a Masters in International Law with a Bachelor (Honours) in Planning and Design, so I think in terms of both rules and real places.
In trade in services, I focus on how cross-border regulation, professional mobility, and digital credentialing shape opportunities for people, MSMEs and SMEs particularly in the Asia–Pacific.
In impact investing and blended finance, I design vehicles and structures that direct capital towards gender, climate, and community outcomes.
In regional and local work, I help regions and places explore new pathways to more regenerative, innovation-led development, particularly via global interconnections in trade and investment.
Across these strands, the constant is system-level thinking and transformation: mapping how policy, law, finance, institutions, and community capability interact – then co-designing interventions that change incentives, unlock new flows of value, and build more resilient, equitable futures.
My work is also informed by a long-term personal practice in Eastern wisdom traditions, which reinforces my focus on interconnection, interdependence, integrity, and regeneration in how economic and social systems evolve.
My personal passions are travel, songwriting, meditation and running amok as often as possible with my partner and daughters.
How can I help you?
I can research, analyse, design, build, facilitate, advocate and apply my decades of experience to help you achieve your goals.
I have experience working directly with digital and AI tools to unlock efficiencies and to accelerate the finding and application of solutions.
I work with governments, organisations, firms, competent authorities - in fact, any actor who is driving or involved with trade, investment, development and impact. Especially in the Asia-Pacific.
I operate from the ground of genuine transparency, independence, relationship and ethics.
Let's talk.