Exhibit
31.1



GLOBAL
EQUITY INTERNATIONAL, INC.

A
Nevada corporation

CERTIFICATION
OF PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Section
302 Certification



I,
Peter J. Smith, certify that:



|1. | I
    have reviewed this quarterly report on Form 10-Q of Global Equity International, Inc. for the six months ended June 30, 2014.                                                                                                                                                                                             
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|2. | Based
    on my knowledge, this quarterly report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material
    fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading
    with respect to the period covered by this report;
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|3. | Based
    on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this interim report, fairly present
    in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the
    periods presented in this report;                     
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|4. | I
    am responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e)
    and 15d-15(e)) and internal controls over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15 (f) and 15d-15(f))
    for the registrant and have:                             



| | a) | Designed
    such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under my supervision,
    to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to
    me by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this annual report is being prepared;
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| | b) | Designed
    such internal control over financial reporting, or caused  such internal control over financial reporting to be
    designed under my supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation
    of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;             
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| | c) | Evaluated
    the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report my conclusions
    about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based
    on such evaluation;                                                                                                      
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| | d) | Disclosed
    in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s
    most recent fiscal quarter that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s
    internal control over financial reporting; and                                                                      



|5. | I
    have disclosed, based on my most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s
    auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent function):
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| | a) | All
    significant deficiencies in the design of  operation of internal controls which would adversely affect the registrant’s
    ability to record, process, summarize and report financial data and have identified for the registrant’s auditors any
    material weakness in internal controls; and
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| | b) | Any
    fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the small business
    issuer’s internal control over financial reporting.                                                                                                            



|Date: August
    14, 2014 |  | /s/
    Peter J. Smith                   
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|                          |  | Peter J. Smith                           
|                          |  | President and
    Chief Executive Officer
|                          |  | (Principal Executive
    Officer)