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Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

• Lead the development and execution of strategic human rights activities with businesses, customers and other external stakeholders that drive progress within Cargill human rights agenda. • Form human rights strategies and tactics for the assigned business and major supply chains within the assigned human rights topic area.• Develop supply chain policies, strategies and action plans to deploy company-wide• Interact with customers directly and indirectly to ascertain needs and partner with commercial teams in developing and delivering solutions.• Communicate policies and objectives to suppliers, including farmers, with the purpose of extending supply chain policies and requirements through Cargill suppliers.• Identify and work with external partners like nongovernmental organizations, foundations, universities and government offices for program design and implementation.• Develop, maintain and apply industry leading expertise in human rights as it applies to the relevant supply chains or geographies.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

• Drive continuous improvement of Cargill Cocoa Promise Sustainability Programme.• Manage the Community Wellbeing Strategic Action Plan and establish relevant processes required to execute and deliver (planning, management, budgeting, and reporting). • Work with and support teams in origin countries including Ivory Coast, Ghana, Cameroon, Indonesia and Brazil to improve programme design and delivery of rural community wellbeing targets. • Coordinate relationship with stakeholders and partners involved to ensure efficient and impactful implementation of projects in country. • Work with Monitoring & Evaluation team to develop methodology and integrate community support related indicators into data collection, verification and reporting.• Align with the cocoa industry norm and work with country teams to integrate into sustainability programming.• Seek and develop partnership opportunities by supporting marketing and resource mobilization strategies.

Roma Y Alrededores, Italia

• Manage a project on Youth Employment in Agricultural Value Chains to inform GIZ’s programme “Green Innovation Centres for the Agriculture and Food Sector” in 14 countries, including:o Overall coordination of the project activities and collaboration with GIZ, including developing reporting deliverables and managing budget;o Travel to conduct fieldwork in 5 countries in West Africa (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Mali, and Togo) to interview selected institutions and collect tools on agribusiness promotion;o Provide advice on strategies for entrepreneurship and employment promotion through upgrading value chains to GIC country teams in 14 countries;o Facilitated a two-day training on Decent Rural Employment in Nairobi, Kenya for GIZ staff from Francophone Africa with positive feedback from participants;o Drafted the study on Youth Employment in Agricultural Value Chains detailing the findings of the desk review and fieldwork together with programmatic recommendations.• Support rural employment projects for countries in Africa and Latin America including planning, budgeting, implementing, monitoring and reporting; e.g. contributed to activities of FAO’s Integrated Country Approach to promote rural youth employment in Guatemala, Senegal and Uganda.• Conduct background research on rural employment issues, and contribute to the development and dissemination of knowledge materials, e.g. coordinated a study on Measuring employment in agriculture-based rural household systems.• Developed and strengthen collaborations with other institutions (e.g., IFPRI, IFAD, ILO, GIZ, and WBG) for capacity development and knowledge generation on employment issues.• Develop and design projects on decent rural employment, including drafting of concept notes and project proposals.

Ginebra Y Alrededores, Suiza

• Evaluated and shared innovative solutions on better insurance products for poor workers, e.g. collected lessons learnt from Kilimo Salama agricultural insurance in Kenya, Rwanda, and Tanzania. • Supported project management, including monitoring, evaluation and reporting, of insurance projects, esp. the Community of Index Insurance Practitioners (IFC) and the Global Action Network (USAID) to advance agriculture insurance.• Assisted in drafting three research papers, six emerging insights and the 2014 annual report on microfinance and employment topics, e.g. collected information for a research paper on insurance as a risk management tool for SMEs.• Collaborated in different capacity building activities such as workshops, webinars, and e-learnings; e.g. assisted in developing several training modules on different insurance topics targeting practitioners.

Ginebra Y Alrededores, Suiza

• Supported the editorial process to develop two issues of Puentes Journal by defining the publication's strategic orientation and editorial line.• Drafted analytical news, and information notes on trade issues and sustainable development. • Organized an expert meeting for the E15 Initiative on strengthening the global trade and investment system for sustainable development.

Ginebra Y Alrededores, Suiza

• Collaborated in projects related to trade and economic integration of developing countries; e.g. supported Project “Promoting agriculture, climate and trade linkages in the East African Community”.• Prepared two Feedback Summary Reports on workshops in Zambia and Nepal for the Enhanced Integrated Framework to support Least Developed Countries to be more active players in the global trading system.• Attended and reported on various meetings at UNCTAD and WTO.

Ciudad De México Y Alrededores, México

• Provided solutions to economic, financial and political challenges to a broad range of companies and public clients.• Managed political risk for effective business planning of different companies.• Collaborated on lobbying, crisis management and government relations.• Worked in the areas of policy analysis, legislative monitoring, financial issues, and political and economic affairs.

Ciudad De México Y Alrededores, México

- Supported Dr. Jean-François Prud'homme in research and development of publications and presentations.

Ciudad De México Y Alrededores, México

Supported on different projects related to the protection and promotion of Human Rights in Mexico.

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Political Science

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), International Relations

Certificate, Management Of Development Projects

SLE Centre for Rural Development Course content: Elements of Project Management, phases of Project Cycle Management, Logical Framework.

International Summer University For Intercultural Leadership

Participated in workshops and wrote a paper on promoting intercultural leadership.

Exchange Program, International Relations