Jasmeer Virdee Email & Phone Number

Geneva, Switzerland

• Responsible for the development of National Export Strategies for selected developing countries, strategy related methodological updates, and baselines for monitoring and evaluation of key ITC projects.
• National Export Strategies: I have extensive experience facilitating the design of national export strategies. This work involves bringing together policymakers, trade support institutions, the private sector, and.
• Methodology updates: Leading work on revising and updating tools and methodologies that allow the section to do its work more effectively. Methodologies I have revised include ones for trade information, trade.
• Monitoring and evaluation: Led the establishment of baselines for nine countries in the UK Trade Partnerships Programme Project.Responsible for the development of conflict sensitivity assessments (CSA) within ITC.
• Produced a methodology to guide ITC's project interventions in conflict-affected settings.
• Produced CSA for livelihood projects assisting refugees and survivors of conflict related sexual violence in Rwanda, South Sudan and Pakistan.

Geneva

• Responsible for the drafting of multiple reports on SME competitiveness and led multiple firm-level survey efforts in developing countries.
• Led the drafting of a background paper for the 2020 G20 Presidency on SMEs and technological disruption.
• Coordinated and led the 2019 SME Competitiveness Outlook report which focuses on the SDGs, investment, and SMEs. Managed a team of six authors and statisticians.
• Co-authored a chapter in Wiley’s 2020 Trade Policy Handbook.
• Led multiple reports on the trade-related aspects of value-chains, trade agreements, investment, and gender and youth empowerment.
• Led multiple efforts to collect firm-level competitiveness data in developing countries. Survey partners were national trade and investment support institutions and government Ministries.

Geneva, Switzerland

• Contributed the development of ITC’s SME competitiveness methodology, the 2015 and 2016 SME Competitiveness Outlooks, and led the development of ITC’s SME Competitiveness Surveys.
• Contributed to the drafting of two ITC flagship reports (2015 and 2016 SME Competitiveness Outlooks)
• Contributed to reports on SME competitiveness, trade-related standards and regulations, and the 2015 Global Review for Aid for Trade
• Contributed to the development of ITC’s SME competitiveness framework
• Led the development of ITC’s SME Competitiveness Surveys product
• Contributed to the joint ITC-WTO report "Tourism and trade: A global agenda for sustainable development"

Geneva Area, Switzerland

• Led an update to the WTO’s global merchandise trade growth model and contributed to the 2014 World Trade Report.
• Generated forecasts for individual economies and aggregated results to produce regional and global import and export forecasts (OLS/ARIMA/dynamic regression models; e-views)
• Results of this work were published in the WTO’s 2014 global trade forecast press release
• Contributed to the drafting of the 2014 World Trade Report

Oxford, United Kingdom

• Completed a PhD in Astrophysics titled “The Far-Infrared Properties of Radio-Loud Active-Galactic Nuclei Across Cosmic Time”.
• Published peer-reviewed academic articles in top astrophysical journals
• Four years experience coding in IDL, C++, and UNIX
• Presented at international conferences
• Gained teaching and laboratory demonstrating experience
• Led and presented at outreach events

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Astrophysics

Msci, Physics, 1St Class Degree

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