Research Assistant
United Kingdom
fDi Intelligence, a division of the Financial Times Ltd, is specialised in all areas relating to foreign direct investment (FDI) and investment promotion, the full suite of services includes: location advertising to generate brand awareness; industry-leading intelligence tools to develop FDI strategies and identify potential investors; and tailored FDI events and investor round-tables to meet target companies and generate business leads. My main responsibilities were: to research, record and monitor greenfield investments in Central and South America, the Iberian peninsula, as well as in specific sectors worldwide such as plastics, rubbers, chemicals, retail, hospitality, automotive and pharmaceutical. This involved analysing both global and local sources in English, Spanish and Portuguese using Factiva, Google Alerts, newsletters, specialised websites as well as databases; identifying inward investment projects and entering them along with additional project information into the fDi Markets database (up-to-date company profiles, showing the parent company to establish the source of the investment, turnovers, an accurate description of the project, jobs created, CAPEX, partnerships, contacts and motives for the investment). As a member of the team one of my task also involved tracking early warning leads, i.e. a company may be just considering an investment in several places or region, which helps clients to identify new business opportunities. My responsibilities also included the collaboration on a monthly report highlighting trends in certain industries or countries, recording interesting news related with FDI and spotlighting the largest projects monitored by myself in order to support the fDi Intelligence bi-monthly magazine. Furthermore, I supported the fDi Magazine's 'Locations of the Future' series, collecting information and participants for the fDi Ranking “American Cities of the Future 2013/14”.