Céline Duckworth
COBCOE Secretary General
Born from British and French parents and attending the German School in Porto, Portugal, Celine Duckworth was able to speak four languages at the age of six years old. She then read British and American Studies at Aix en Provence University and went to complete her course at the Sorbonne whilst at the same time reading International Relations at ILERI Business School also in Paris.

Following a work placement at the Franco British Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Celine held several managerial positions with Level 3 Communications - an American telecommunications start up – firstly setting up their property portfolio in time for their fibre optic network to be built across Europe and then in their Colocation Product Management team overseeing the product life cycle and space efficiency. She then joined the Corporate Services Team at DTZ Debenham Tie Leung advising corporates and co-ordinating their property projects across Europe.

Celine is married to John Duckworth and they have two sons.

Her main role is to:

• Establish good working relationships with each Chamber of Commerce within the COBCOE network and understand their needs, objectives and expectations;
• Promote and expand the role of COBCOE with existing and prospective members;
• Strengthen and increase the membership of COBCOE;
• Develop and organise events and sponsorship programmes for COBCOE in co-ordination with members.