Clemensson

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