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Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

● Leading peer benchmarking analysis on higher education institutions in the U.S. and globally to inform client’s international student recruitment strategy.● Conducting in-depth research and analysis on international education policy, companies, institutions, and current events in global markets to identify business opportunities.● Designing and executing primary research tools such as interview questionnaires and surveys for stakeholders to assess the global higher education market trends for clients.● Drafting briefing memos, talking points, background materials, and press releases as it relates to the practice’s work.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• Drafted a White House zero waste proposal by meeting with leaders of sustainability focused organizations to explore a strategy to reduce Executive Office food and plastic waste. • Reviewed academic literature on recent decarbonization innovations to manage plastic waste through plastic waste injection and plastic to fuel conversion to help inform federal to reduce plastic pollution.• Assisted government wide-meetings on reducing and eliminating the use of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances – known as PFAS – by tracking government agencies’ progress on reaching their goals.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• Developed a sustainable Public-Private-NGO Partnership model with the Kenyan Meteorological Department to deliver weather services to smallholder farmers and agribusinesses to build climate resilience and adaptation.• Arranged meetings with Kenyan government officials and stakeholders to conduct key informant interviews to inform the design of a sustainable PPP model.• Prepared COP 27 discussion talking points for executive director for meetings on the need for transformational philanthropy to strengthen Africa’s agri-met sectors for better climate services.• Drafted blogs on the importance of accurate weather services for smallholder farmers to increase buy-in from philanthropy organizations and public and private sectors.• Managed detailed workplans using project management skills to meet project deliverable deadlines.

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

Arlington, Virginia

• Consulted 3 to 4 clients per month on recommendations to improve products based on key findings after analyzing Amazon reviews data of their products• Created dashboards using Power BI to illustrate customer reviews of products on Amazon• Increased our contract renewal with clients by 30% by creating Competitive Media Monitor (CMM) reports using R to scrape news article websites, Google Trends, website trafficking data, and tweets to analyze our clients’ news and social media presence relative to their competitors• Led due-diligence to identify errors in our analysis process and created a quality control check list for editing and reviewing reports, which slashed the number of defective reports by 40%• Built a strong business-client relationship by maintaining a monthly schedule of CMM deliverables for effective project management• Led a team of researchers in CMM production by establishing a workflow process that increased production of reports by 25% whilst maintaining quality

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Conducted quantitative research to track Official Development Assistance to nutrition channeled from bilateral organizations to implementing organizations to recipient countries; this included reviewing project descriptions, categorizing by nutrition intervention/program type, and validating categorization within the research team• Provided nutrition policy analysis of multilateral donors to understand if they support a multi-sector approach to combat malnutrition around the globe• Edited and provided references for a final report of Children Investment Fund Framework’s (CIFF)Ethiopia work on combating malnutrition• Examined the aid financing landscape related specifically to nutrition (i.e., funding channel flows from bilateral and multilateral donors) and identified and documented existing database and resources to more effectively conduct nutrition financing research

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

• Carried out qualitative and quantitative market research comparing pricing between domestic and foreign produced edible oil• Collected and analyzed pricing data and compiled cost information on government rules and regulations into a final report to be included in a business plan for international start-ups• Created questionnaires and conducted field interviews with edible oil market participants to assess pricing differences between local and imported oil

•Served as a liaison between Macsheb PLC and banks to oversee the logistics of equipment and spare parts shipping from foreign countries • Organized all contact information of foreign sales offices of Macsheb’s suppliers • Gained awareness about government bureaucracy and international trade

M.A., International Relations

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