Prior to this, she was the director of monitoring and remediation at Estrategos Consultores, where she oversaw a $5 million venture philanthropy portfolio focused on reducing poverty through funding community organizations, and small and medium enterprises in strategic economic sectors. Her previous professional experience includes working as a transfer pricing analyst for KPMG in Shanghai, and as an investment banking analyst for Goldman Sachs in New York City.
Prior to this, she worked in the sovereign advisory group at the investment bank Lazard Frères Gestion in Paris, where she was involved in assignments related to sovereign debt restructuring, sovereign financing, and banking sector reform. Eddahmani graduated from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, where she specialized in international development. She also holds master’s degrees from HEC Paris, and Ecole Polytechnique in France.
In this role, he is responsible for reporting on briefings held by think tanks such as Friends of Europe and the European Centre for Development Policy Management. He also fills the role of vice-consul in the embassy’s Consular Service, and follows dossiers involving the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States, the European Parliament, and the European Commission. He previously worked in the Economic Section of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
In this role, he worked with the International Monetary Fund, and was responsible for monitoring the country’s financial and economic program, as well as for the debt relief and development contract between Côte d’Ivoire and France. He has also worked as an analyst at the Central Bank of West African States, where he prepared foreign trade indices for the West African Economic and Monetary Union zone, and for the Ministry of Economy, where he managed investments for state companies and provided support to the companies in the ministry’s portfolio.
He has worked as an entrepreneur and within the corporate sector, where he developed his skills in customer relationship management, enterprise resource planning, and business to business, and business to consumer marketing analyses. He is a founding team member of Groupon Morocco, a laureate of the Harvard University’s Emerging Leaders program at the Kennedy School of Government, and a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers’ Community.
He is also the co-founder of Subite al Chunche, a web-based documentary designed to generate national unity and support for the men’s national team of Costa Rica at the 2014 World Cup tournament in Brazil. The documentary became the most widely shared World Cup-related project in the country. Formerly, Castro was a reporter and producer for CNN. He is currently a storytelling instructor at the United World College in Costa Rica, and a member of the San José Global Shaper’s hub.
He was a member of the Mexican delegation to the 2013 G20 Young Entrepreneur’s Alliance Summit, and he worked as a marketing executive at L’Oreal managing brands in Latin America and Europe. He launched Alterna in 2010. Buchbinder holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the Instituto Technológico Autónomo de México, a master’s degree in environmental technology and business from Imperial College London, and a master’s degree in environmental geography from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
She is the founder of Unu Design Workshop, a fair trade clothing company in the Peruvian highlands. Prior to joining the Canadian public service, Boyd managed various business and development initiatives in Peru, France, and Nicaragua. She holds a master’s degree in political economy, and is a graduate of the Government of Canada’s Accelerated Economist Training Program. Boyd has been recognized as an emerging leader by Action Canada, Canada’s premier public policy leadership program.
Based in New York City, Berger previously lived in Rio de Janeiro, where he worked at the U.S. Department of State as a political and economic affairs assistant, and at the Fundação Getulio Vargas as a visiting researcher. Prior to his time in Brazil, he was a policy associate at Americas Society and Council of the Americas (AS/COA) in New York, and an editor atAmericas Quarterly, AS/COA’s policy journal.
Prior to joining OCP, he worked in a managerial capacity for multiple consulting firms, where he led transformation and development projects for various clients. Bensouda has a professional background in finance and construction, and he has worked on various infrastructure and transportation projects throughout Morocco.
