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San Francisco Bay Area

Inclusive Agribusiness. Develop practical strategies to support small-scale farmers through building linkages with buyers, input and equipment suppliers, service providers, and financial institutions. Strong working knowledge of business, donor, NGO, and government objectives and goals -- and the challenges on the ground in rural communities -- and leverage this to develop sustainable commercial partnerships. Design, evaluation, implementation support assignments in Africa, Middle East, and East Europe. Private Public Partnerships, value chain analysis, rural development, rural finance.Clients include: IFAD, FAO, TechnoServe, LEAD Trust, WFP, FHI360, DAI, Social Impact, JE Austin Associates, IFC, Weidemann Associates, Chemonics, Louis Berger as well as the governments of Sudan and Tajikistan.Funders include: IFAD, USAID, European Union, DFID, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, European Union

Africa, Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Central Asia, South Asia

Team Leader for supervision and design of inclusive agribusiness projects in Asia: Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Maldives Africa: Sudan, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Malawi; Eurasia/Central Asia: Georgia, Tajikistan; Middle East: Lebanon, Egypt.

Zambia, Malawi

2017, Zambia, Go to Market and and Profitability Strategy for COMACO, a social enterprise sourcing from small-scale farmers in Zambia's Luangwa Valley. Funded by USAID. 2016/2017 Zambia Strategy Development for the Agricultural Technology Demonstration Centers operated by the Chinese Ministry of Commerce. Funded by BMGF. 2015, Malawi, Soya Value Chain Analysis. Funded by DFID.2013/2014, Evaluation of the Technical Assistance Facility of the Africa Agriculture Fund (Private Equity Fund). Funded by the European Union.

Rwanda, Zambia, Worldwide

Evaluation of the IFAD, FAO and WFP collaboration activities in the P4P program

Nairobi Hq. Activities In Uganda, Ethiopia, Zim Mauritius, Ken, Tan

1) Managed the USAID East African Trade Hub (EATH) value chain and structured trade programs, which focused on staple foods (grains and pulses), in the final 6 months of EATH. 2) Team Leader for a Cotton/Textile/Apparel Value Chain study covering the East African Community, Ethiopia, and Mauritius.

Uganda

Developed private sector engagement and participation strateg for Feed the Future Project (USAID funded)

Istanbul Based. Worked In Azerbaijan

Technical design of Regional Economic Growth technical proposal for Europe and Eurasia Bureau of USAID, and for the ATLAS project for USAID/Azerbaijan

Lusaka, Zambia

Agribusiness Scoping Mission for Zambia. Developed private sector investment promotion strategies for the soy sector, farm block development.

Azerbaijan

Design of training and business development activities for communities in the rural areas of Shamkir, Azerbaijan.

Botswana Based. Active In South Africa, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Team Leader of 7 professionals, developing and implementing activities in the cotton, soy, groundnut, and maize value chains; with cross-cutting activities in finance. Produced value chain studies for all sectors. Developed private sector engagement and investment promotion activities using a market systems development approach

Herat And Kabul, Afghanistan

For saffron and slaughterhouse projects in Herat Afghanistan, developed concept with private sector partners, and prepared documentation for grants for a modern slaughterhouse and for saffron production in western Afghanistan. Both grants were awarded approximately $1 million in funding by USAID/Afghanistan, matched by private sector contributions

Baghdad, Iraq

Directed SME Banking Team, one of largest components of the Tijara SME project funded by USAID. Managed a team of 10 professionals

New Delhi, India

Team Leader managing DAI's contract supporting the GTZ SME Financing and Development Project, working in New Delhi, Indore, Hyderabad, and Uttarakhand.Help banks lend to SMEs with less risk and greater profitability, using CRM, credit scoring, sector-specific training, credit guarantees.Introducing new means of raising and investing risk capital for SMEs.Value chain strengthening for automotive and pharmaceutical sectors.

New Delhi, India

Helped develop the Agribusiness Systems International concept in India, and market concept to organized retail firms such as Reliance Fresh.

New Delhi India

Developed investment profile for Afghanistan targeted at Indian corporate investors. Based on this profile, organized a senior business investment conference that was held during a visit of President Karzai to New Delhi in December 2006.

New Delhi, Delhi, India

Developed/troubleshooted/managed economic growth initiatives for the Economic Growth office of USAID/India.These initiatives included low income housing finance, water/sanitation finance, pooling of commodity futures to help small scale farmers hedge risk, micro-insurance (health).Agribusiness activities:Designed credit guarantee scheme supporting small-scale sugar cane farmersDeveloped risk hedging strategies for small-scale grain producers

Malawi

Nontimber forest product commercial development (natural medicines, wild mushrooms)Small Scale Irrigation

Harare, Zimbabwe

Developed linkages from small-scale farmers to markets, technical assistance, and credit. Worked with processors, exporters, commercial banks, wholesalers to develop value chain partnerships.Also, a special focus on working with HIV-affected rural households; micro-irrigation; drought tolerant crops.

Exporter of wild mushrooms; fresh, frozen, dried and brined. Chanterelles and boletes.Exporter of wild fruit jams, herbal teas, processed nyimo beans, white sorghum, pearl millet.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Developed and managed corporate engagement for PAID's strategy of utilizing blocked corporate assets for international development

Nairobi Kenya And Harare Zimbabwe

Project Design and Management. Donor liaison. Private Sector Engagement and Partnerships.

Jakarta, Indonesia

Managed team of researchers for management consulting company. Market Entry Studies, Development Finance analysis, Export Strategy development for private and public sector clients

International Trade litigation support, environmental policy analysis

1980, Finance

Activities and Societies: Public ManagementFinance, Graduated with Distinction

Bachelor'S Degree, Biology, General

Genetics, Immunology, Biology of Cancer, Organic Chemistry, Microbiology