Professional Experience:
A multifaceted result-oriented professional with a rich career in the world of development and international cooperation, guided by a practical and operational vision, entrepreneurial freedom and creativity, which has been built on a succession of experiments and innovative achievements.
A geographer with 30 years in the field as a team leader for the design, coordination, implementation, financial, public relations, and communication management of complex multidisciplinary, cross-functional, multistakeholder projects in different cultural environments in Asia-Pacific and Africa, including in conflict settings. A strategic and creative thinker. Demonstrated teamwork, innovation and excellence. Great interpersonal and diplomatic skills to influence and spur change, solve problems, facilitate and enhance performance. Bringing together people with different perspectives is my forte.
Key expertise: Economic growth, MSME and (micro)bankers’ capacity building to serve the informal sector, Creative economy, Ecological resilience and natural resource management, Agriculture, fisheries and nature-based Solutions, Governance, Communication and stakeholder engagement, Research, GIS.
In depth experience of Indonesia, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Cameroon