Mahmud Johnson Email & Phone Number

Liberia

At J-Palm Liberia, we create oil palm-based consumer goods and clean energy solutions for consumers at the base of the economic pyramid, through a no-waste manufacturing process.I serve as chief administrator, overseeing a workforce of over 40 employees in roles ranging from finance to marketing to operations.Website: http://www.jpalmliberia.com/

Monrovia, Liberia

I provide technical assistance to LISGIS in cleaning and organizing data (in STATA) for the first post-war Liberia Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES). The data will be used to, among other things, estimate a new consumption bundle, poverty line, and poverty headcount measure.

Monrovia, Liberia

Building Markets is an international NGO that helps build markets and create jobs to sustain peace in developing countries by championing local entrepreneurs and connecting them to new business opportunities.At Building Markets- Liberia (BML), I served as STATA Consultant, where I trained BML's market research to use the STATA software to run statistical.

Monrovia, Liberia

Local Facilitator - Agribusiness Commercial, Legal and Institutional Review (AgCLIR) for the Enabling Agricultural Trade (EAT) programLocal Consultant - Bellmon Estimation Studies for Title II - 2014

Monrovia, Liberia

I conducted value chain research and analyses for the oil palm, cocoa, coffee and fisheries sectors in Liberia.

Liberia

Aurora Solutions, Inc. is a strategy consulting and political lobbying firm that works at the intersection of corporate strategy and economic development in Liberia. In my role, I have conducted econometric and statistical analyses for projects including business expansion, brand management and pricing strategies for a large-scale bottled water.

Hanover, NH

Hanover, NH

Teaching Assistant for "Calculus with Algebra" course, running tutorials for class with 44 students (Fall 2011, Winter 2012)Peer Tutor for "Financial Intermediaries and Markets" course (Fall 2012)

Hanover, NH

• Provide research support to faculty: Conduct literature searches to develop information of relevance to the research.
• Assist with manuscript preparation for international research project, ARISE-SE.
• Produce presentations that maximize impact of project results.
• Create and apply design template to all final materials for consistent formatting and branding.
• Archive all print and electronic materials.

Hanover, New Hampshire

The Paganucci Fellows Program is a unique opportunity for Dartmouth students to take part in a social entrepreneurship program being offered by the Center for Leadership at the Tuck School of Business. In general, the program supports Tuck’s efforts to study complex social issues and the ways in which businesses can create positive social and financial.

Monrovia, Liberia

• iMHere! is a youth-led initiative that provides academic scholarships and other academic and recreational opportunities to hitherto out-of-school young men aged 12-18 in Monrovia, Liberia.
• Manage a staff of six and oversee strategic operations of a project that involves 27 beneficiaries and their parents.
• Worked with team to research school enrollment patterns and created a proposal that addressed school dropout among young men aged 12-18 in three slum communities in Monrovia… Show more iMHere! is a youth-led initiative.
• Worked with team to research school enrollment patterns and created a proposal that addressed school dropout among young men aged 12-18 in three slum communities in Monrovia (have won grants totaling $16,000+).
• Presented and tested project’s model in the IdeasLab at the 2010 World Economic Forum on Africa. Show less

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Managed and created content for web page tracking agriculture policy and initiatives in African countries.
• Conducted research on African countries’ progress toward achieving Millennium Development Goal One (to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger).
• Made recommendations to AllAfrica.com’s Chief Strategist about innovative agriculture policy and related social entrepreneurial initiatives for the AllAfrica platform to track.

Hanover, NH

Monrovia, Liberia

• Co-authored PSI/Liberia’s annual report, which involved analyzing qualitative and quantitative data.
• Team member in strategic design and national launch of PSI’s SMARTChoice® brand, which promotes responsible sexual behavior among youth aged 16-24 to prevent HIV and unintended pregnancies.
• Led focus groups to create a website for PSI’s youth reproductive health radio show.

Hanover, NH

• Created and distributed weekly electronic assessment surveys to 40 undergraduate students who participated in the Management and Leadership Development Program (MLDP).
• Compiled and analyzed qualitative and quantitative data of participants’ assessment of 15 seminars and workshops on leadership and management that took place over a 10-week span.

Monrovia, Liberia

• Evaluated official data on international development aid and participatory policy making to create content for Liberia’s poster for the Marketplace of Ideas at the 2008 International High Level Forum on Aid.
• Member of Liberian President’s delegation to the 2nd German-African Partnership Forum.
• Member of team that produced the 2008 Executive Diary of the President, and the inaugural issue of the presidential magazine Executive Horn.

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