25 years of professional experience with a multitude of local and international key-players including multinational corporates, private sector, government institutions and local and international development and donor-funded programs.
15 years of experience in international development, sustainable economic growth, MSME development, entrepreneurship, youth and women empowerment programs from interventions/ programs design to implementation and to monitoring and evaluation.
12 years of solid experience in MSME development, micro-finance and business development services (BDS) for MSMEs and financial/ non-financial services and financial and non-financial product design.
4 years practical application of the market development approach (M4P) through practice in donor-funded projects.
12 years of solid experience in market research including methodology design, research qualitative and quantitative tool design, data collection supervision and analysis – with particularly solid experience in the qualitative research and with an extensive research-consulting portfolio on the Egyptian MSMEs eco-system. (See independent consulting assignments)
Donor relation and international development program management experience (both donor side and implementing organizations side)
Communication and strategic partnerships management experience – particularly solid experience in communication for development interventions.