Skills

• 20+ years of experience in working in emerging ecomoies in strategy development and implementation for businesses, organizations, value chains and sectors; food safety, change management, development of curricula and training materials in the aforementioned areas at technical and vocational education (TVET) and university levels.
• Large scale project and program management
• Management and development of teams and organization
• Multi-stakeholder facilitation
• Policy advice: food security and livelihood systems, markets, food systems
• Institutional fundraising
• Evaluation of large-scale agricultural (value chain, etc) programs: Danida, IFAD, CDC, FAO
• Development and implementation of capacity building programs


Knowledge
Deep understanding of agricultural development and agribusiness development and strong market system analysis and value chain development skills
• Agribusiness assessment, strategy development and evaluation / building multi-stakeholders partnerships to enhance sector development (project manager; EUR budget 4 million)
• Value chain (program) assessment, development, evaluation (Evaluated the value chain development program of DANIDA (24 VCD in 18 countries / EUR 180 million investment)
• Developed capacity building program in all the areas above, including development and implementation of short-term courses, long-term (more than 3-weeks) capacity building programs for a variety of actors within the value chain, and TVET and higher education levels (executive MBA program, agribusiness programs at agricultural universities)


Work experience in:
• Africa: Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Rwanda, Tanzania, Tunisia, South Africa, Uganda
• Asia: China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam
• Transition countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, FYR, Moldova, Turkey, Kyrgyzstan, Russia
• EU: Czech Republic, Poland, Slovak Republic