CACCI President Peter McMullin AM represented CACCI as a member of the World Chambers Federation General Council meeting in Bogota, Colombia in early March 2023. "Colombia is a a country with a troubled past but an optimistic future" CACCI President McMullin said as he sat alongside delegates from 27 countries that collectively represented hundreds of thousands of businesses, creating millions of jobs. Many of the delegates had their own businesses anchoring them in the reality, not the theory, of business needs. Representatives from North and South America, Africa, Europe and of course Asia.

President McMullin said that as "we celebrated the strengths of multilateralism, that working and trading together we were living out ‘the merchants of peace’ ethos." The CACCI President always argues that if we sit with each other, know each other and support each other’s interests there would be less of a reason to enter into conflict with each other. Many challenges lay ahead, not least the leadership needed by business to address the impacts of climate change as one worried delegate said to Mr. McMullin; without a planet we will have no business!

CACCI celebrates the diversity and strength of its network, and President McMullin is committed to reach further into places and to people we have not previously engaged with CACCI because CACCI believes that the entrepreneurial spirit is what binds us. That given the right support people can live out their dreams of what is possible.

President McMullin argues that for ourselves, our families and our community. CACCI and the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) must continue to work closely on initiatives and events that continue to foster the entrepreneurial spirit as well as add practical value to our membership base.