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International Trade Consultant

Since September 2009, Senior Consultant at Saana Consulting


Key experience:

  • Over ten years experience on trade and development
  • Specialising in aid and trade, including aid for trade 
  • Experience working with DFID, GTZ, KfW, Sida, Danida, UNCTAD, World Bank and the Commonwealth Secretariat as well as national governments including the Government of Tanzania

 Specific areas of expertise:

  • Trade and trade policy including regional integration
  • Development policy (including mainstreaming trade and the productive sectors in national development strategies/PRSPs)
  • Aid effectiveness
  • Trade related assistance and aid for trade (including needs assessments; evaluation of trade-related assistance and delivery mechanisms, including choice of aid modalities; harmonisation and alignment of trade-related assistance; donor-government mechanisms for performance assessment of aid; and, promoting effective donor-government dialogue)
  • Private sector development
  • Policy and institutional reform
  • Project management

Recent papers:
Quantifying Aid for Trade ODI report - commissioned by the Commonwealth Secretariat
An Overview of Ex Ante Tools for Assessing the Impact of Trade Liberalisation on the Poor ODI report - commissioned by GTZ