Consulting for clients in the public sector in the Middle East. I worked on trade policy, strategic integration of international organizations, analysis of private sector development.

Facilitating the mainstreaming of impact investments

• Analysis of economic development of member countries, drafting of entrepreneurship policies for member states, action plans, monitoring and evaluation frameworks. Organized multi-stakeholder consultation and workshops. Developed and drafted strategy for Ethiopia, Cameroon, Gambia, South Africa.• Mainstreamed data and qualitative information on environmental and social sustainability, established strategic watch on entrepreneurship and the SDGs.• Established a coherent and coordinated approach to fundraising activities.• Initiate and organize workshops and expert meetings, prepare briefing notes and inputs to intergovernmental bodies, high-level conferences, expert meetings.• Participate in conferences and stakeholders meetings and represent UNCTAD entrepreneurship section and initiate partnership.

• Directed all functions and activities associated with research projects on entrepreneurship in Georgia and Armenia for University of Fribourg and extended the research to Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan for the Volkswagen Foundation.• Directed the independent SME Policy Assessments in Georgia for the OECD. • Consulted on the linkages between the financial sector and the non-oil economy in Azerbaijan and on agricultural finance in Georgia for the SECO/SDC Cooperation Office in Baku as part of civil service duties for Switzerland.• Completed a study on payment transactions in Switzerland for the Institute for Banking and Finance of University of Zürich• Contributed to a European Union funded research on multilingualism in financial sectors• Presented results of said researches and PhD in conferences and seminars• Assisted Russian business in developing activities in Switzerland• Managed a pool of clients in South-Eastern Europe for electronic financial brokerage institution

• Set up Aurelys' Russia's desk in St-Petersbourg• Developed a network of potential institutional clients in Russia • Designed financial structured product adapted to Russian clientele• Developed a network of institutional and retail clients in Russia • Established an office in St-Petersburg• Organized road-shows and presentations about financial structured products in St-Petersburg and Moscow• Developed Aurelys’ communication material in Russian• Established synergies with Swiss private banking institutions to presence and marketing in Russia

• Gathered data on conflict resources, the political economy of conflict and the economic development conditions to conflict resolution and peace building• Participated in the development of trainings for diplomats of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) on mediation• Organized, jointly with FDFA and the International Organization for the Francophonie, a high-level conference on mediation for French-speaking African countries• Participated in the preparation background study on Cocoa resources in Ivory Coast and the role it played in the war