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Faculty 2009
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Ms Kholoud Al-Khaldi (Jordan) has sixteen years of experience as a trainer, researcher, project manager and expert on micro and small enterprise development with a strong emphasis on promoting an entrepreneurship culture in the Arab region and a focus on disadvantaged women. Ms Al-Khaldi joined the Enterprise Development Programme of the International Training Centre of the ILO in 2002 and is responsible for designing, organizing and conducting training activities on women’s entrepreneurship development, microfinance, creating an enabling environment for small enterprise development, business development services and policies and strategies for generating quality employment in micro and small enterprises. Ms Al-Khaldi managed the Centre’s Italian funded project on women’s entrepreneurship in conflict-affected Afghanistan between 2003 and 2005. Ms Al-Khaldi holds a Masters degree in Entrepreneurship Studies from the University of Stirling (UK) and a degree in Economics from Bir-Zeit University (Palestine). Her working languages are Arabic and English.
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Bernd Balkenhol directs the ILO’s Social Finance Program (SFP), which observes, records and evaluates initiatives to use financial instruments and institutions for decent work. The focus is on innovations in finance that create jobs, help manage risk and organize the poor. Prior to this Bernd served as technical advisor to the central bank of West African States (BCEAO) on SME financing. In that framework he helped develop a course for the central bank’s training institute COFEB on commercial bank financing of African SMEs. This led to the publication by Harmattan of 16 case studies on small enterprise finance in Africa. He holds a PhD from Freiburg University in Germany and a MA from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Medford, Mass.) He lectures at the Geneva Institute of Development Studies and the University of Geneva. His latest book (“Microfinance and Public Policy”, Palgrave Macmillan) reviews the conditions for smart subsidies to microfinance institutions. He has served on the Executive Committee of CGAP and is Founding President of the Swiss Microfinance Platform.
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Est actuellement Responsable Principal de Programmes au sein du Programme Technique Emploi et Développement des Compétences du Centre International de Formation de l'OIT.
Il est spécialiste des questions liées à l’emploi et à la formation. Il conçoit des cours et anime plusieurs ateliers et séminaires de formation dans ces domaines. A commencé sa collaboration avec le Centre de Turin en 1994, dans le domaine des initiatives locales d'emploi ; la conception et la planification de projets et programmes de développement et de formation orientés sur les questions de genre. Au Centre de Turin, au sein du Programme Régional pour les Pays Arabes, Il a assumé pendant trois ans les fonctions de point focal pour les pays du Maghreb ainsi que pour le Programme MEDA. Auparavant et successivement, Maître-assistant à l’Ecole Nationale des Ingénieurs et Techniciens d’Algérie, chargé de cours à l'Ecole Polytechnique d'Architecture et d'Urbanisme d'Alger (EPAU), Directeur- Adjoint du Centre de Recherche en Architecture et Urbanisme et Directeur de l' EPAU. A ce titre a présidé différents comités et instances pour la refonte des programmes d'enseignement universitaire en Algérie. Conférencier dans le cours post-gradué « territoire et développement » du Département Territoire et Développement de la Faculté d’Architecture de L’Ecole polytechnique de Milan (Italie). Parallèlement et pendant 10 ans, il était chercheur et ensuite coordinateur institutionnel de l'Université des Nations Unies et chef d'un projet de développement intégré utilisant les énergies renouvelables et les technologies appropriées dans une zone sub-aride en Algérie. A assumé les charges de Directeur Central chargé de la promotion immobilière dans une banque nationale de l'habitat social en Algérie, de Représentant d’un Fond de Participation au conseil d'administration d’une entreprise nationale d'engineering et d'urbanisme et membre du conseil d’administration d’une entreprise publique de promotion immobilière. Il a effectué de nombreuses missions de consultations dans le domaine de l’enseignement et de la recherche universitaire, le développement, la promotion de l’emploi et de la formation dans différents pays pour le compte d'organismes et institutions chargés de la coopération internationale. Mostefa Boudiaf est Ingénieur en Génie mécanique de l’Ecole Polytechnique d’Alger.
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Graeme Buckley is an enterprise specialist at the ILO where he works on enterprise policy and business enabling environment issues. Previously he worked in the Policy Integration Department at the ILO, responsible for coordinating the ILO’s work on PRSPs. He has worked in over 40 countries in various capacities, including long term assignments as economic adviser to the Minister for Finance in Swaziland and chief economist at the Foundation for Reconstruction and Development in El Salvador. He was previously at the UK Department for International Development (DFID), where he held posts as Economic Adviser/UK Alternate Director at the Caribbean Development Bank, based in Barbados; Economic Adviser for the China and East Asia Department and Enterprise Adviser responsible for the South Asia programme. Prior to that, he worked in the Evaluation Department at the Foreign Office. He has a PhD in development economics, an MBA and a first degree in economics and has published a number of books and journal articles on topics related to enterprise development, microfinance, social dialogue and poverty reduction.
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Martin Clemensson is the manager of the Small Enterprise Programme (SEED) at the International Labour Organization’s headquarters in Geneva. The SEED team supports the ILO field network in areas of enabling business environment, value chain upgrading, business development services, association building, informal enterprise upgrading, women and youth entrepreneurship etc. He is a board member of the Donor Committee for Enterprise Development. Before taking up the assignment in Geneva, he spent eight years in Eastern and Southern Africa with the regional “Start and Improve Your Business” projects, based in Kenya and later in Zimbabwe. The project introduced the programme to 16 countries in the Eastern and Southern Africa region. Before joining the ILO he worked as an economist at the Swedish National Board for Consumer Policies in Stockholm, Sweden. He holds an MBA from Business School Lausanne, Switzerland
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Martin Gasser has 8 years professional experience working in the field of Local Economic Development. After studying in Italy, France, Spain and Germany, Mr. Gasser has been working for the European Commission (European project evaluation Germany-France) and graduated with a Masters degree in Local Economic Development at the London School of Economics (2000). Based first in the ILO Headquarters in Geneva (Cooperative Branch) and then at the ILO training Centre in Turin (Enterprise Development), Mr. Gasser’s has been working in countries such as El Salvador, Brasil, Chile, Mexico, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Zambia, Madagascar, Cameroon, Iran, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand, India, Bangladesh and Vietnam.
His main publications include: - Goovaerts, P., Gasser, M., Belman Inbal, A. (2005): Demand-Driven Approaches to Livelihood Support in Post-War Contexts - a joint ILO-World Bank Study - Social Development Paper No. 89
- Gasser, M., Coto, L., Piñeiro, J. (2004) “Generar procesos de Desarrollo Económico Local mediante Cooperativas”, distance learning material on LED in Spanish language (6 modules).
- Gasser, M., Salzano, C., Di Meglio, R., Lazarte-Hoyle, A., (2004) “Local Economic Development in Post-Crisis Areas – An Operational Guide” (English, Spanish and French versions) ILO, Geneva.
White, S. and Gasser, M. (2001) Local Economic Development: A tool for supporting locally owned and managed development processes that foster the global promotion of decent work, Enterprise Development Department, ILO Geneva.
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Lenni has a master degree in Training and Organisational Development and has almost twenty years experience in this field. Prior to establishing her own consulting company, she worked for the United Nations on a range of issues supporting the Secretary General's Reform process. A great deal of Lenni's work has been to support organisations and associations under going change and transition. She is currently working with a number of countries preparing for accession to the European Union. Lenni also trains in Management and leadership development, how to build effective partnerships and consultancy skills for international development projects
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Hagen Henrÿ is a German magistrate by training. In addition he received a Diplôme d'études approfondies in development law from the University of Paris (V) and a licentiate degree in law from the University of Helsinki. He did postgraduate work at the Institute for Development Studies of the University of Geneva. He is Dr.iur. and Adjunct Professor of comparative law of the University of Helsinki.
He worked at the Universities of Saarbrücken, Geneva and Helsinki for 6 years and for 8 years as legal advisor to the German Federal Minister of Economy. Before joining the ILO as COOP Team leader in 2007 he worked for 14 years as a consultant in cooperative policy and legislation in a great number of countries and for a great number of governmental as well as non governmental organisations.
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Matt joined the Springfield Centre in early 2008 and has taken a leading role in applying market systems thinking and practice to the development of value chains. Most recently, in Armenia, he has been researching the meat and vegetables value chains, as part of a new programme design exercise. Similarly, in Serbia, he has been working with partners in the South and South-West regions to analyse and design more systemic approaches to their value chain programmes. More widely, Matt has led a research review process into the application of the market systems approach to making healthcare markets work better for the poor in Bangladesh. Prior to joining the Springfield Centre, Matt worked for the ILO where he led efforts towards formulating a more consistent and rigorous agency wide approach to value chain development. This involved working directly with their Enterprise for Pro-Poor Growth project in Sri Lanka, where he led the implementation of several value chain initiatives, and more widely, while based in Geneva, working on the development of operational guides, the design and delivery of training programmes throughout Africa and Asia, and the development of monitoring and evaluation systems for value chain projects. Matt graduated from the University of Leipzig in Germany as a political scientist and economist.
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Mr. Joshi has been working on small enterprise development in the ILO for past several years. He has worked in South East Asia and the Pacific as well as in South Asia. Currently, he is working on informal enterprises in Geneva and is responsible for two Global Products on Labour Law and Informal Enterprises. After receiving his masters and doctorate degrees, Mr. Joshi was Professor of Management in the US for several years before becoming Adviser to the Prime Minister of Nepal on Administrative Reforms. He has had experiences as Director at Administrative Staff College in Nepal and resident consultant to UNDP. He has been responsible for research on labour law and MSEs. His latest publication was on Job Quality in Clusters in India (2005). His previous publications have been in the areas of informal economy, privatization and garments industry.
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Andreas Klemmer is a senior enterprise development specialist of the International Labour Organization based in the ILO Sub-Regional Office for Southern Africa. In this capacity, Mr. Klemmer advises ILO constituents and other partner organizations in Southern Africa on the creation of decent employment through enterprise development. Mr. Klemmer has been instrumental in developing a programmatic response of the ILO to the social business development challenge worldwide and in the sub-region, and backstops the ILO Social Business Development pilot project of the ILO in South Africa. Mr. Klemmer is specialized on the promotion of Small and Medium-Scale Enterprises (SME), and can draw on extensive work experience, having managed SME development projects in Asia and working as Associate Expert in SME promotion projects in Africa prior to joining the ILO as regular staff. Mr Klemmer holds a Master Degree and a Post-Graduate Degree in Development Politics, has published various articles and reports on SME development and co-developed some of the SME development tools used by ILO.
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Shukuko Koyama joined the ILO in May 2007. Shukuko works on the development of manuals and tools on socio-economic reintegration of ex-combatants. From 2002 to 2005, she worked as a project officer for the Weapons for Development Project at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) in Geneva. Prior to coming to Geneva, she was a Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) Officer with the United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Her main areas of expertise include socio-economic reintegration of ex-combatants, DDR, post-conflict private sector development, weapons collection, participatory monitoring and evaluation, and gender analysis. Shukuko has an M.A. in Conflict Resolution from the University of Bradford, and she is also a PhD candidate there. Her doctoral thesis is on security sector reform in post-conflict societies.
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Zu Liangrong holds a PhD in business and management from Nottingham University, UK. His thesis was on corporate social responsibility, corporate restructuring and corporate governance. Before joining the International Training Centre of the ILO in 1995, he worked for the Ministry of Labour in China, where he gained expertise in labour management and human resource development. Since the late 1990s, he has worked for the Centre’s training programme on corporate social responsibility and corporate restructuring for developing countries. His book, “Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Restructuring and Firm’s Performance: Empirical Evidence from China”, was published by Springer in 2008. He has also published many articles.
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Naoise Mac Sweeney is a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge, where she conducts research into ethnic conflict and nationalism in the Middle East. Since 2007 she has also worked for the Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED) on the project ‘Private Sector Development in Conflict-Affected Environments’; reviewing different approaches to programming in such situations, and exploring options for greater co-ordination.
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Is a member of the Cluster and Business Linkages Unit of UNIDO. Mayumi is currently involved in technical assistance projects on cluster development, with a focus on Ethiopia. She has extensive experience in development programmes in Asia including Bhutan and Cambodia, through UNDP/UNV and JICA, prior to joining UNIDO. She had also worked as a consultant in a management consultancy firm. She holds an M.A. in Economics from University of Kyoto (Japan) with a specialization in Business Administration
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Julius Mutio (MBA) has worked with ILO for over 10 years as a SED Consultant in Africa and Europe. He joined EMP/SEED as Business Development Services Coordinator in August 2008 after having served in the field as an ILO Chief Technical Adviser in Papua New Guinea in 2007/8. Prior to that he worked as a Enterprise Development Centre Training Manager at the London Borough of Tottenham, in England. He has also work as an SME Development Consultant for for UNDP and World Bank. Mutio has worked as a Resource Person at the ILO Turin Centre.
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Maître de conférences à l’Institut d’Administration des Entreprises d’Aix-en-Provence (Université Paul Cézanne – Aix-Marseille) - Consultant Docteur en gestion (économie et gestion des entreprises) Enseignant en Stratégie-Entrepreneuriat et Contrôle de gestion-Audit à l’IAE Aix (Responsable du « parcours » entrepreneuriat Master 2) Intervenant en Stratégie-Entrepreneuriat au Cefeb (Groupe AFD) depuis 1986 et à l’Université Senghor d’Alexandrie de 1991 à 1997. Membre du comité d’organisation du 6ème Congrès de L’Académie de l’Entrepreneuriat (CERAM-IAE-Aix), Sophia-Antipolis, 28-29-30 octobre 2009
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Karl-Oskar Olming is the global project manager of the ILO-SCORE programme, Sustainability through Competitive and Responsible Enterprises. The SCORE programme contributes to sustainable development through supporting the application of responsible and productive workplace practices that positively contribute to SME competitiveness and employment. The project approach builds on good practices in cluster development, business development services and working with mass media to foster productive and responsible workplace practices. Karl-Oskar has been with the ILO since 2002, specializing in implementing, coordinating and researching various aspects of the ILO's business development services programme.
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Nikolai Rogovsky is a Technical Specialist at the Job Creation and Enterprise Development Department of the International Labour Office (ILO), Geneva, Switzerland. Prior to joining the ILO in 1996 Nikolai has been working as a management consultant and was teaching at a number of business schools in the USA. In the 1980s he worked for the Economic Research Institute of the State Planning Agency (Gosplan) of the USSR. Nikolai did his PhD and MA in Management at the Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania. He also attended Moscow University and the University of Oxford. Dr. Rogovsky is an author of more than 30 books and articles on international human resource management, cross-cultural management, corporate social responsibility, value chain analysis and development.
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Merten Sievers is the Programme Officer responsible for Business Services and Value Chains of the Enterprise Development Programme at the ILO’s International Training Centre in Turin. He holds a degree in Economic Geography (Hamburg and Madrid), and a Diploma in Development Management of the German Development Institute (Berlin). He joined the ITC-ILO in 2006. In the last 9 years he has been working on enterprise development including for the ILO in Geneva and Bolivia and as an enterprise development consultant based in Panama. He has mainly worked on developing service markets, on linking business services to enterprise finance and on local economic development.
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Joni Simpson is a Specialist and the Coordinator of Women’s & Youth Entrepreneurship development for the International Labour Organization. She has a background in Local Economic Development and has worked on social enterprise, community credit, sustainable livelihoods model and non profit management. At the ILO, she provides technical assistance to constituents and field specialists and projects. Joni is concerned with the inclusion and empowerment of marginalized populations and has been working on micro-enterprise development and employment issues for the last 12 years. Her academic background is in Cultural Anthropology and Education. Her research focused upon immigrant women entrepreneurs and their pathways towards livelihoods through entrepreneurship
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Holds a Master degree in International Development from the University of Manchester (UK) with a specialization in Industrial Strategies. She is a consultant at the Cluster and Business Linkages Unit of UNIDO, which specializes in the promotion of technical assistance projects, policy advice, design and implementation of training programs focused on the development of clusters, networks, export consortia and corporate social responsibility. Anna has been involved in technical assistance projects on cluster and network development and has contributed to the formulation of a number of methodologies and papers on the topic.
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Jim Tanburn has a wide range of experience, working in the oil industry before establishing an NGO focusing on enterprise development. He then worked in the ILO, supervising a range of programmes in Africa and Asia that were aiming to pioneer a new and more systemic approach to PSD. During that time, he also co-authored the Guiding Principles on Business Development Services under the auspices of the Donor Committee (then for Small Enterprise Development). He now works part-time as Coordinator of the Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (www.Enterprise-Development.org), in addition to undertaking occasional consultancies, particularly in the fields of results measurement and M4P programme design. He has published or contributed to several books, and is a graduate of the University of Cambridge.
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Ms. Tieby has18 years of experience working in the Middle East and North African region in the sustainable development arena. During the last ten years, she has been dedicated to the development of the sustainable microfinance industry. Ms. Tieby has extensive experience in designing microfinance services and streamlining the management of institutions’ operations. Since 1999, Tieby has been certified as a trainer of trainers for sustainable microfinance courses and has been actively involved in training initiatives in various countries in the MENA region. In 2001, Tieby served as a consultant to UNICEF in Yemen, where she helped them launch their Micro Credit Program. During this consultancy, she conducted intensive training, developed policies and procedures, mobilized targeted communities, and completed on-going monitoring and evaluation missions. In 2003, Tieby conducted a review of the policy constraints facing the microfinance industry in Jordan, with a focus on the regulatory, legal and financial environments. In early 2004, Tieby has focused her activities on capacity building and advocacy for sustainable microfinance initiatives in conflict zones and transitional economies in Sudan, Iraq and Afghanistan. During the last few years, Tieby has undertaken numerous short-term assignments in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Sudan, and Tunisia. These additional assignments covered sectors of primary health care, gender mainstreaming, community infrastructure program design and organizational restructuring. In this context, descriptive, impact and relevance analysis was carried out in addition to sustainability analysis to verify the potential of the continuity of the projects’ benefits. Where necessary, policy review of the overall legal and regulatory environment was carried out and action plans presented to policy makers, donor organizations and stakeholders in order to minimize their negative effects and ensure the sustainability of their on-going developmental activities.
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Peter Tomlinson has nineteen years professional experience in the field of enterprise development, including long term project experience in Latin America, the Caribbean and the South Pacific. He currently manages the enterprise development programme for the International Training Centre of the ILO in Turin, Italy (1999 to present day). He specializes in entrepreneurship, microfinance, business development services and enabling business environments for small enterprises. Mr Tomlinson holds a Masters degree in Development Administration and Planning (1995) from Bristol University, a degree in Economics and Accounting (1975) and the professional qualification of Chartered Accountant (1978). He has worked extensively on enterprise development projects for the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the European Commission (EC) and the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID). He has practical experience in Enterprise Development in the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, Europe, Asia and the Pacific.
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Stephan firmly believes in the potential of the private sector to contribute to sustainable development and poverty reduction if provided with the right conditions. Since 2006, he has worked with the ILO in both headquarters and the field (Asia and Africa) and contributed to the promotion of sustainable enterprises, responsible workplace-practices, local economic development, CSR and the principles of the tripartite ILO MNE Declaration. Stephan holds a Master degree in Political Science, Business Administration and Computer Science from Freiburg University in Germany. He has worked for the German Development Institute in Bonn, the German-Hungarian Chamber of Industry and Commerce in Budapest and the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UN ECLAC) in Santiago de Chile. Currently employed as a consultant, he looks at the impact of the economic crisis on enterprises and strategies for socially sensitive enterprise restructuring.
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Kees van der Ree (ILO) works on rural enterprise promotion, in particular through local economic development (LED) approaches. He has supported numerous country programmes in Africa, Latin America and Asia. From 2005 to 2007 he managed an integrated enterprise development programme in rural Vietnam. When re-joining ILO Headquarters he took up the coordination of ILO's global programme in support of LED, now increasingy focused on rural areas. Jointly with ITC Turin he is strongly involved in knowledge sharing and capacity building, both at global and national levels.
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Dr. Paul Vandenberg is Professor of Economics at the International Management Institute (IMI) in New Delhi, where he teaches macroeconomics and labour issues. He has also taught in the UK and briefly in Japan. Since 2002, he has worked as a consultant to the ILO in Geneva, New Delhi and Turin on issues related to labour, small enterprises, credit, employers’ organizations, child labour and productivity. He has published a book on the Indian business community in Kenya and authored several articles in recognized journals. His most recent work focuses on flexicurity in Asia and on the policy responses for MSMEs during the current global slowdown.
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Alice Vozza holds an advanced degree in political and socio-economic sciences from the University of Turin. She also holds qualifications in
business administration and a Master's degree in the management of development. After working in the UK, Spain and France for international market research consultants on IT and tourism, she joined the International Training Centre of the ILO, where, for the past seven years, she has worked on local development, decentralization and project design. Since 2006, Alice has coordinated a course on disaster risk reduction within the framework of sustainable local development, targeting local authorities, policy-makers and key players in local development management and disaster-risk reduction, especially in Latin American, Caribbean and Asian countries.
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