Who`s Who CTA ECDPM meeting AfT Agri_final

Dialogue on challenges of changing agricultural markets in the
context of ACP-EU trade:
Identifying an Aid for Trade agenda for the agricultural sector
Brussels, 14-15 April 2008
Bedford Hotel
Who’s Who
List of participants
Version 1.1
17 April 2008
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George Alcee
Agricultural Economist
Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Secretariat
c/o OECS Secretariat, PO Box 179, the Morne, Castries
Saint Lucia, West Indies
17584556345
17584531628
[email protected]
George Alcee is an Agricultural Economist with the
Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS)
Secretariat. He has 30 years experience in the agricultural
sector and holds an MSc in Agricultural Economics, a BSc in
Agricultural Business Management, as well as diplomas in
Agricultural Extension and Rural Development and General
Agriculture.
His current work involves preparing technical and policy
documents relating to agricultural development and
diversification within the OECS; preparing economic and
social analyses and reviews, especially in the area of
agricultural transformation; and closely collaborates with inhouse Project Management Committees on the development
and monitoring of projects executed by the Secretariat. Mr
Alcee develops strategies to promote diversification and
agricultural development;and is instrumental in making
recommendations (including fiscal and other incentives) to
promote agricultural growth. He is involved in coordinating
and servicing policy and technical meetings at the ministerial
and official level and also advises the OECS Heads of
Government on policy and strategy in the area of poverty
alleviation and rural development.
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Christopher Anstey
Director
Chris Anstey Ltd
70, Tannery Drift, Royston, Herts SG8 5DE
UK
01763 249282
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Alexandra Beijers
Executive Assistant
ECDPM
Onze Lieve Vrouweplein 21 6211 HE Maastricht
The Netherlands
31-43-3502904
31-43-2502902
[email protected]
Alexandra Beijers, a Dutch national, currently works as an
Executive Assistant to the ACP-EU Economic and Trade
Cooperation Programme. She started her career in January
2004 as a Junior Executive Assistant at ECDPM. She holds a
Bachelor’s degree in Higher Social and Cultural Education.
[email protected]
Christopher Anstey is Acting Chairman of the Procurement for
Development Forum with the UK Government (DFID) and
Chatham House. Eleven food industry directors from the
retailing and manufacturing sectors working together on
understanding reputational issues concerning food from
Africa. Currently, he, along with an advisory group of seven
NGO’s including IIED, NRI, Oxfam, Traidcraft and COLEACP,
is building a programme of buyer training in the UK food
business on pro-poor procurement. He is an adviser and
facilitator to Regoverning Markets programme (run by IIED).
He recently wrote a position paper (February 2008) for the
Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI – the world’s five largest
retailers). Prior to this, Mr Anstey worked at Tesco for 15
years
on policy, supply chain standards, supplier
performance and technical competence for food and nonfood. He was also responsible for fresh food quality for the
period 1998–2000; from1995–1998 he led the international
technical process in Tesco France; and developed the African
supply chains (1993–1995). He has also worked as Chairman
of the GFSI from 2003–2006, and was Director from 2002–
2007. He has also been involved in extensive committee work
on food indusrty working groups:
• Governance Committee of the British Retail Consortium:
Global Standards 2002–2007
• Advisory Group Global-gap (then Eurepgap) farming
standards 2003–2004
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Pierre Berthelot
Director
All ACP agricultural commodities Programme
Avenue Louise, 479/53, 1050 Brussels
Belgium
32-2-2820340
32-2-290.15.53
[email protected]
Pierre Berthelot is currently Team Leader and Agricultural
Innovation Expert within the EU-funded “All ACP Agricultural
Commodities Programme”. From 2002–2006, he successfully
managed the EU-funded programme (€12 million) to support
the integration of ACP states in the multilateral trading system
(ACP MTS Programme). Mr Berthelot spent several years
with a leading ACP agricultural research institute, analysing
and disseminating innovative technologies for adoption by
farmers, and consolidating farmer support services. He has
also worked for international organisations such as the
OECD, the African Development Bank, and the
Commonwealth Secretariat. He is an agricultural economist
by training and gained his first degree from the University of
Sussex in the United Kingdom and a post-graduate degree
from the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
of the University of New England in Australia. He is also
bilingual in English and French.
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San Bilal
Programme Coordinator
ECDPM
Onze Lieve Vrouweplein 21 6211 HE Maastricht
The Netherlands
31-43-3502923
31-43-2502902
[email protected]
Dr Sanoussi Bilal, a Swiss national, is the Programme
Coordinator of ECDPM’s programme on ACP-EU Economic
and Trade Cooperation. His current activities relate mainly to
trade policies and capacity development of the African,
Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries and the European
Union, in the context of their regional integration process, the
Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) currently being
negotiated and the multilateral (WTO) framework. Before
joining ECDPM, he worked on trade and immigration issues
at the University of Geneva. He also worked on internal
market issues at the European Institute of Public
Administration, and trade and development issues at the
Overseas Development Institute.
His background is in
international relations, economics and international trade, with
expertise in trade policies and development, economic
integration, political economy, regulation and trade-related
areas. He also has publications focussing on these areas.
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Isolina Boto
Head Brussels Branch Office
CTA
Rue Montoyer 39 1000 Brussels
Belgium
32-2-5137436
31-317-460067
[email protected]
Isolina studied economics and philosophy. Her main
experience is in the area of development cooperation,
information and communication, including media. She has
worked at the European Commission and for various
development and media organisations within the context of
ACP-EU cooperation. She currently heads the Brussels
Branch Office of the CTA.
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Corinna Braun-Munzinger
ECDPM
Onze Lieve Vrouweplein 21
6211 HE Maastricht
The Netherlands
[email protected]
Corinna Braun-Munzingen, a German national, started at
ECDPM in July 2007 in the function of Research Assistant to
the ACP-EU Trade website.
Mélanie Bride
Programme manager
Commission Européenne, Europeaid
rue de la loi 41, 1000 Brussels
Belgium
32-2-296-5770
32-2-299-4947
[email protected]
Mélanie Bride est gestionnaire de programmes pour les
opérations centralisées des pays ACP, auprès de EuropeAid
de la Commission Européenne depuis janvier 2007. Elle
instruit et gère plusieurs actions de coopération dans les
secteurs 'agriculture et ressources naturelles'; dont le
financement annuel du CTA, le programme tous ACP sur les
produits de base agricoles, etc. Titulaire d'un diplôme
d'Ingénieur en Agriculture et d'une maitrise en gestion du
développement, son expérience s'étend à divers pays ACP,
principalement en Afrique de l'Est et australe et aux Caraïbes.
Avant de rejoindre la Commission, elle a travaillé six ans au
sein de Natural Resources International (Angleterre) sur la
gestion, le suivi et l'évaluation de programmes de
développement rural, recherche agricole et renforcement des
capacités du secteur public et de la société civile. Elle a
réalisé de nombreuses missions court terme pour le suivi ou
la conception de projets avec des partenaires locaux ainsi
que des missions en tant que consultant sur le renforcement
des capacités institutionnelles.
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Christina Calabro
Desk Officer St Lucia, St Vincent, Grenada, Dominica
European Commission- DG Development
rue de la Science 15, 1000 Brussels
Belgium
32-2-29-59162
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Gloria Carrion
Programme officer for trade supported development
strategies
ICTSD
7 chemin Balexert, 1219 Geneva.
Switzerland
4122-9178737
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[email protected]
Gloria Carrion currently works as a Programme Officer for
Trade-supported Strategies for Development at ICTSD. Prior
to her appointment at ICTSD, she worked as a negotiator for
the Permanent Mission of Nicaragua to the WTO. In addition
to this, she has carried out a research project on DR-CAFTA
negotiations in association with the United Nations Research
Institute for Social Development and the University of
Geneva. She has also worked as an Analyst and Technical
Assistant at the International Trade Office of Commerce and
Industry in Managua, Nicaragua. Ms Carrion holds an MSc in
Environment and Development from the London School of
Economics in the United Kingdom, and a BA in International
Development Studies and Biology from Trent University in
Canada.
Yvonne S. Chileshe
First Secretary (Trade)
Embassy of the Republic of Zambia
Avenue Molière, 469
1059 Brussels, Belgium
+32(0)23495165
+32(0)23474333
[email protected]
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Lingston L. Cumberbatch
Director
Tradecom Facility PMU
Avenue des gaulois 20
B-1040 Brussels
+32(0)27430020
+32(0)27430029
[email protected]
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Melanie Curtis
Trade and development policy analyst
DFID
1 Palace Street, London SW1E 5HE
UK
00 44 (0) 207 023 1790
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Vincent Derussy
Director
GAL Leader+ NGT / PER
CCNGT
France (Guadeloupe)
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[email protected]
Policy generalist trade (aid for trade)
0590 22 47 87 / 0690 50 31 53
0590 22 47 88
[email protected]
Diplômé d’une maitrise en aménagement du territoire, Vincent
Derussy est chargé de mission du programme Leader +
NGT en Guadeloupe. Depuis 2008, il participe à la mise en
place du projet territoire Nord Grande Terre à travers le PIC
Leader +, sur la base d'un partenariat public/privé constitué
en GAL. Le Gal NGT a lancé en 2008 son diganostic ex-ante
en vu de l'appel à projet, axe 4 du FEADER, qui constituera la
matrice du territoire.
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Baba Dioum
Secrétaire Général
CMA/AOC
7 avenue Bourguiba
BP 15799 Dakar Fann Senegal
221-33 869 11 90
221-33-869 11 93
[email protected]
Dr. Baba Dioum has been the coordinator general of the
Conference of Ministers of West and Central Africa Since
1991. Prior to that, he served as director of the Policy
Agricultural Unit where he was in charge of writing policies on
agriculture and as technical adviser to the Ministry of Rural
Development, both in Senegal. He has had a varied career
with emphasis on natural resources conservation, water
issues, and agricultural policies. Dr Dioum has served on
several boards, including that of the International Food Policy
Research Institute (IFPRI) and the International Fertilizer
Development Center (IFDC), and was the founding member
of the executive committee for the United Nations Program for
the Environment as well as a member of the executive
committee of the International Union for Conservation of
Nature.
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Gregory Downes
Trade Attache
CRNM/ Embassy of Guyana
Avenue du Brésil 12
1000 Bruxelles
+320418125089
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Nigel Durrant
Head of Agricultural Trade Unit
Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (CRNM)
119 Peter Rose Street, Queenstown, Georgetown
Guyana
1(592)2269624
[email protected]
[email protected]
Economist
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Anatole Ebanda Alima
Delegue en Europe
ASSOBACAM (Association des producteurs de banane du
Cameroun)
40 rue du Seminaire Centra 391, 94616 Rungis - Cedex
France
33671812679
33146753601
[email protected]
Patrick Eeckloo
Adviser market access and value chain development
TRIAS
Handelsstraat 20 1000 Leuven
Belgium
[email protected]
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Medhat El-Helepi
Economist
African Union Interafrican Bureau for Animal Resource
(AU/IBAR)
Kenindia Business Park building, Museum Hill, Westland road
P.O. Box 30786-00100
Kenya
+254203674203
+254203674341
[email protected]
Dr Medhat El-Helepi currently works with the African UnionInterafican Bureau of Animal Resources (AU/IBAR) as an
Economist, and is responsible for the developing,
implementiing and managing key actions decisions relating to
animal health and trade in Africa’s livestock sector. He holds
a PhD in Agricultural Economics from Cairo University, Egypt,
and a Master's degree and PhD in Environmental Economics
from McGill University, Canada. Prior to joining AU/IBAR, he
was an Assistant Professor of Agricultural Economics at Cairo
University for the graduate and undergraduate levels. He has
extensive practical and research experience in the field of
agricultural economics including marketing, socio-economics,
preparing feasibility studies, and training in teaching, business
and marketing. He has worked as a freelance consultant with
several international development agencies, including USAID,
GTZ, and CIDA.
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Paul Engel
Director
ECDPM
Onze Lieve Vrouweplein 21 6211 HE Maastricht
The Netherlands
31-43-3502908
31-43-2502902
[email protected]
Paul Engel is the Director of the European Centre for
Development Policy Management (ECDPM), in Maastricht,
the Netherlands, (see http://www.ecdpm.org ). He also
lectures on Knowledge for Development at the University of
Maastricht/UNU-Merit for the PhD programme on Innovation
and Development. He is particularly interested in issues
relating to policy coherence for development (PCD), the
effectiveness of international cooperation, and the facilitation,
monitoring and evaluation of multi-stakeholder (policy)
innovation processes. Prior to joining ECDPM, he taught
Management and Organisation for Rural (business)
Development at the Concepción University in Chile; led the
International Extension Programme at the Dutch Ministry of
Agriculture, Nature Management and Fisheries; and directed
international research on Knowledge and Innovation for
Development at Wageningen University, where he and his
team developed a practical approach to strengthening the
innovative capacity of local and institutional actors (see
http://www.kit.nl [bottom of page/search: ‘raaks’]). He has also
carried out field research in Peru, directed development
projects in Ghana and Colombia, and worked as an
international consultant. He has travelled widely in Africa,
Latin America and Europe and published extensively on the
social organisation of innovation for development.
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Vincent Fautrel
Programme Coordinator Agricultural Trade
CTA
Postbus 380 6700 AJ Wageningen
The Netherlands
31-317-467184
31-317-460067
[email protected]
Vincent Fautrel holds a Master from Paris I Sorbonne and a
Post-Graduate Degree in Development Economics from Paris
X Nanterre (France). He has worked in development for over
a period of 10 years. Vincent started his career in Guinea
with IRD/ORSTOM then spent two years in Senegal on a
project funded by AFD. In 1998, he moved back to Paris
where he was a project manager at SOFRECO, one of
Europe's leading consultancy firms specialising in agricultural
and rural development, where he carried out several short
missions to Africa, Asia and Central Europe. Since 2004, he
is a Programme Coordinator in the field of Agricultural Trade
at the CTA, responsible for the management of Agritrade
website (http://agritrade.cta.int).
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José Filipe Fonseca
Senior Programme Co-ordinator
CTA
Postbus 380 6700 AJ Wageningen
The Netherlands
31-317-467133
31-317-460067
[email protected]
José Filipe started his career as a Geography Teacher and
held various posts in his native Guinea-Bissau such as Senior
Planning Officer at the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural
Development, Director of the Ministry Planning Unit and
Director of an IFAD/ADB Rice Development Project. Prior to
joining CTA, he gained diplomatic experience as Counsellor
(technical cooperation) in the Guinea-Bissau Mission to the
EU and ACP, and Guinea-Bissau Embassy in Brussels.
He is now a Senior Programme Coordinator of the Regional
Partnership Communication programme within the Channels
and Services Department of the CTA.
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Patrick I. Gomes
Ambassador
Embassy of Guyana
12, Avenue du Brésil 1050 Brussels
Belgium
32-2-6756216
32-2-6725598
[email protected]
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Paul Goodison
Director
GDC Partners
Grasmarkt 105, bus 46
1000 Brussels, Belgium
32-2-53772482
[email protected]
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Géo Govinden
Delegate to the EC
Mauritius Chambers of Agriculture, Commerce, Industry and
Sugar Syndicate
82, Boulevard L. Schmidt Bte 12, 1040 Brussels
Belgium
32-2-733-95-61
32-2-734-00-47
[email protected]
Géo Govinden is a Member and Adviser of the Mauritius
official delegation both in Brussels and Geneva. He has been
directly involved in all negotiations regarding ACP-EU
cooperation (Lome 4 and Cotonou Agreements). He is also
actively involved in the WTO work (primarily in the agricultural
sector) and has participated in all 6 WTO Ministerial meetings
(Singapore, Geneva, Seattle, Doha, Cancun, Hong-Kong); he
is currently participating in the ongoing negotiations. He has
been a consultant on two occasions to evaluate the Centre for
the Development of Industry, an institution jointly set up by
the ACP and the EU to promote the industrial development of
ACP countries. The recommendations made were endorsed
by the ACP-EU Ministers and included in the Lome IV bis and
Cotonou Agreements. In 1996, on behalf of the Commission,
he conducted the evaluation of COLEACP, a Paris-based EU
funded institution mandated to promote trade in agricultural
and processed products between ACP countries and the EU.
In 2000, he was a member of a team of 3 consultants
conducting an evaluation of ECDPM.
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Catherine Guichard
Déléguée générale
COLEACP
5 rue de la Corderie Centra 342 94586 RUNGIS CEDEX
France
33-1-41800210
33-1-41800219
[email protected]
Catherine Guichard est ingénieur agronome de formation.
Elle a plus de vingt ans d’expérience sur les thèmes suivants
: commerce international de fruits et légumes frais, la
compétitivité des entreprises ACP sur les marchés
européens, de l’analyse stratégique, codes de pratiques des
filières, harmonisation des démarches de qualité et sécurité
des aliments. Depuis 1996, Madame Guichard est Déléguée
Générale du Comité de Liaison Europe-Afrique-CaraïbesPacifique pour la Promotion des Exportations Horticoles
A.C.P. (COLEACP). Elle a précédemment également officié
dans de nombreux postes dans le cadre du COLEACP, en
particulier en tant que Chef de projet du Programme Initiative
Pesticides (P.I.P.), qui l’ont amené à travaillé dans de
nombreux pays aux Caraïbes, en Afrique et dans l’Océan
Indien. De nationalité française, Madame Guichard est
diplômée de l’Institut National Agronomique de Paris (I.N.A.).
Elle travaille depuis le bureau parisien du COLEACP.
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Jürgen Hoffmann
Speicial Trade Adviser
Namibian Agricultural Trade Forum
PO Box 5096, Ausspannplatz, Windhoek
Namibia
264-61-379500/507
264-61-225371
[email protected]
Jürgen Hoffman was born in Germany where he trained as an
agricultural economist. He emigrated to Namibia in the late
1950s. And, after establishing himself as a practical farmer,
he became involved in the food processing sector. He was
Chairman of Namiba Mills for 11 years, which operated grain
mills not only in Namibia, but in Botswana and Swaziland as
well. After retiring, he became Chairman and CEO of the
Namibian Agronomic Board where he was concerned mainly
with institutional marketing. His experiences there led him to
become involved in regional and international trade issues as
they relate to Namibia's agricultural sector. He is a founding
member and Senior Trade Adviser to the Namibia Agricultural
Trade Forum, a private sector-funded institution, and
mouthpiece on agricultural export value chain in regional and
international trade relations.
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Hilary Jeune
Policy officer
Fair Trade Advocacy Office
Rue du commerce 124 1000 Brussels
Belgium
32-2-2173617
32-2-2173798
[email protected]
Hilary Jeune is a Policy Officer for the Fair Trade Advocacy
Office. She has been working in her current position for about
15 months. Prior to this, she worked for a number of NGO
networks, lobbying the EU and UN institutions on issues such
as sustainable development, youth and peace building. She
has a BA in Geography and an MA in International
Development. She has worked on projects in a number of
African countries including Sierra Leone, Kenya and Ghana.
Hilary comes from Jersey, the Channel Islands.
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Ibrahim Khadar
Head
CTA
Postbus 380 6700 AJ Wageningen
The Netherlands
31-317-467159
31-317-460067
[email protected]
Ibrahim Khadar is Manager for the Planning and Corporate
Service at the CTA. He is an agricultural economist and
information specialist with considerable experience in
planning, monitoring and evaluation and impact assessment.
Before joining CTA in 1992, he was a Senior Scientific Officer
at CAB International. He holds a BSc (Honours) Economics
degree from the University of Sierra Leone, a PhD in
Agricultural Economics from the University of Montpellier in
France and a Post-graduate Diploma in Tropical Agriculture,
Ecole Supérieure d’Agronomie Tropicale (ESAT), Nogent-surMarne.
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Philip Kiriro
President
Eastern Africa Farmers Federation (EAFF)
P.O.BOX 13747 - 00800, Nelleon Place, Raphta RD
Westlands, Nairobi
Kenya
254-020-4451691
[email protected]; [email protected]
Debbie Kleinbussink
Senior Administrative Assistant
CTA
Postbus 380 6700 AJ Wageningen
The Netherlands
31-317-467150
31-317-460-067.
[email protected]
Debbie Kleinbussink has worked as an Executive Secretary in
several European organisations before joining CTA. Following
her GSE ‘A’ levels, she did a 2-year Royal Society of Arts
diploma for tri-lingual secretaries (French and German) and
achieved the London and French chamber of commerce
qualifications for private secretaries, and the Institute of
Linguists’ qualifications in French and German. Ms
Kleinbussink is currently a Senior Administrative Assistant at
the CTA.
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Volckaert Kristoffel
Staffmember Agricultural policies in developping countries
Trias
Diestsevest 40 3000 Leuven
Belgium
32-16-28-60-50
32-16-28-60-50
[email protected]
Kristof Volckaert works for IVA, an NGO mandated by the
Boerenbond, a major Belgian Farmers' Union and member of
COPA and IFAP.
IVA together with TRIAS are members of AGRICORD, a
network of agri-agencies (i.e. NGOs mandated by farmers'
organisations and supporting member-based farmer
organisations and their co-operatives in developing
countries), which jointly run the "Farmers Fighting Poverty"
programme. Mr Volckaert trained as a rural economist and
sociologist and has worked in the Democratic Republic of
Congo, and travelled extensively through Central, Eastern
and Southern Africa. He currently advises on “farmer-friendly'’
agricultural policies in developing countries, seed policies and
agricultural credit; he also analyses international trade
development, WTO, EPA's, EU sugar regime and biofuels.
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Edwin Laurent
Deputy Director Trade
Commonwealth Secretariat
UK
442077466261
[email protected]; [email protected]
Economist/Diplomat
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Christophe Lesueur
Agronome
Hub rural
BP 15702 Dakar Fann
Senegal
221-33-8693846
221-33-8693962
[email protected]
Avant d’intégrer le hub rural M. Lesueur occupait la fonction
de responsable du volet Afrique du programme
développement rural et pauvreté de l’institut de la Banque
Mondiale pour lequel il était chargé de la définition et la mise
en œuvre de formations destinées principalement à des
responsables d’organisations professionnelles et ministères
en charge de l’agriculture en ASS notamment sur le foncier
rural, la compétitivité des filières horticoles, la formation de
leaders paysans ainsi que sur des processus d’élaboration
concertée des politiques agricoles. Plus d’une dizaine
d’années de son expérience professionnelle, passées en
Afrique (Mali et Guinée) et dans les Caraïbes (La Grenade),
en collaboration avec la coopération française, ont été
consacrées en matière de réforme agraire, d’Appui aux
organisations professionnelles Agricoles et aux Ministères
chargés de l’agriculture ainsi qu’aux questions de
développement et de compétitivité des filières agricoles.
Ingénieur agronome spécialisé dans l’agronomie tropicale,
diplômé de l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Sciences
Agronomiques Appliquées de Dijon, il a mené diverses
études et collaboré à la rédaction de rapports sur l’élaboration
des politiques agricoles, le renforcement des capacités des
acteurs des politiques agricoles et l’organisation du monde
agricole.
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Mike Matsebula
Chief Executive Officer
Swaziland Sugar Association
Mbabane
Swaziland
268 404 2646
268 404 5005
[email protected]
Mike Matsebula is the CEO of the Swaziland Sugar
Association (SSA), an umbrella organisation for all growers
and millers in Swaziland. Before joining SSA, he was an
Economics Professor at the University of Swaziland. Since
joining SSA, he has been associated with a number of sugarrelated initiatives within and outside the Swazi sugar industry.
He is on the Steering Committee overseeing the
implementation of the National Adaptation Strategy for
enabling Swaziland to cope with the negative consequences
of the reform of the EU Sugar Regime. He is closely involved
in sugar matters under the regional free trade areas. He is a
member of the Administrative Committee of the International
Sugar Organization and closely monitors the current WTO
agriculture negotiations.
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John May
Chairman
Sugar Commission of Fiji
Sugar House, Walu Street, Lautoka
Fiji
679(9927321)
679666647
[email protected]
John May trained as a School Teacher in New Zealand, and
for a period of 9 years taught at various schools in Fiji. In
1972, Mr May joined the Fiji Visitors Bureau as Deputy
General Manager in Suva, he later became a Regional
Manager in Australia, and prior to returning to Fiji he was
made Acting General Manager in Suva. He joined the Fiji
Sugar Marketing Company (FSM) as its Deputy Chief
Executive in 1976 and in 1983 he was appointed Managing
Director of FSM, a position which he held until his retirement
in 2006. In 2007, he became Executive Chairman of the
Sugar Commission of Fiji, Chairman of the Fiji Sugar
Marketing Company and Chairman for the Sugar Cane
Growers Fund. Mr May's current work focuses on overseeing
the various reforms taking place within the Fiji Sugar Industry
ensure its viability in the future.
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Ibrahim Mayaki
Directeur Exécutif
Hub rural
Immeuble Ousseynou Thiam Guèye -Rue de Thiès, Point E,
BP 15702 CP 12524 Dakar-Fann
Senegal
221-33-8693960
221-33-8693962
[email protected]
Mr Ibrahim Assane Mayaki est le directeur exécutif du hub
rural depuis sa création en juillet 2004.
Mr Mayaki a été professeur d’administration publique au
Niger et au Venezuela. Par la suite, il a travaillé dans
l’industrie de l’uranium au Niger auprès de la Société des
mines de l’air (SOMAIR), filiale du groupe COGEMA.
De 1996 à 1999, il devient successivement ministre des
Affaires étrangères puis Premier ministre de la République du
Niger. À ce titre, il s’est impliqué dans la définition et la mise
en œuvre des politiques du gouvernement, en particulier dans
le domaine de la sécurité alimentaire, de la réduction de la
pauvreté, et du développement durable.
De 2000 à 2004, Mr Mayaki a été professeur invité à la
faculté de Paris XI, où il dispense des cours sur les relations
et les organisations internationales, et sur la définition et la
mise en œuvre d’une politique étrangère, et a coordonné en
parallèle des recherches au Centre de recherches sur
l’Europe et le monde contemporain (CREMOC) à cette même
université.
Diplômé de l’Ecole nationale d’administration de Québec, Mr
Mayaki est titulaire d’un doctorat en science administrative de
l’université de Paris II. Il est l’auteur de plusieurs ouvrages sur
les affaires publiques, la planification et le développement
local.
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Thomas Michel
Project manager Agricultural trade
GTZ
Dag-Hammarsköld-Weg 1-5, 65760 Eschborn
Germany
+49-6196-791480
[email protected]
Thomas Michel is in charge of the Agricultural Trade Project
at GTZ headquaters in Germany (see: www.gtz.de/trade).
This project is aimed at improving concepts, methodology and
instruments for trade related capacity building in the
agricultural sector and integrating these into development
cooperation projects, the strategies and programmes of
partner countries and the work of the Federal Ministry for
Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). His current
responsibilities include advising the German Government on
agricultural trade matters in developing countries, especially
on commodities and food, verification and certification
systems as well as impact monitoring of measures of the "Aid
for Trade" initiative.
Mr Michel holds a PhD in Sociology. He has worked as a
Consultant in the private sector, as Senior Adviser at GTZ
headquaters for Sustainable Private Sector Development, and
has managed various development projects and programmes
for private sector development in Central America and South
America.
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Lutangu Fredrick Mukuti
COMESA CAADP Pillar II Market Information Specialist
Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)
COMESA Secretariat BOX 30051 LUSAKA
Zambia
260-1-229725
260-1-229725
[email protected]
Lutangu Fredrick Nukuti works for the Common Market for
Eastern and Southern Region (COMESA), Africa’s largest
economic bloc, comprising twenty countries. He works in the
Division of Investment Promotion and Private Sector Division,
where the Agricultural unit is housed. Within the Agricultural
unit, there is a team promoting the Comprehensive Africa
Agricultural Development Programme (CAADP) for the
COMESA member states. Mr Nukuti is the Market Information
Specialist for CAADP Pillar II. As part of his work, he is
concerned with improving rural infrastructure and trade
related capacities for market access within Africa. He has
worked for COMESA for the past three years in the field of
markets. He is also attached to the Regional Agricultural
Trade Expansion Support Programme ( RATES), which is a
chemonics programme managed by COMESA in the same
capacity.
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Stephen Mbithi Mwikya
Chief Executive
Fresh Produce Exporters Association of Kenya (FPEAK)
PO BOX 40312, 00100
Kenya
25424451488; 254722716956
254244551489
[email protected]; [email protected]
Stephen Mbithi Mwikya is the Chief Executive Officer for the
Fresh Produce Exporters Association of Kenya (FPEAK) – a
33-year-old organisation comprising about 120 companies
dealing in the exports (i.e. fruits, vegetables and flowers) and
allied industries in Kenya (with a combined export volumes of
over 1 billion US$ [2006 figures]).
He was a Board Director of a parastatal organisation for 6
years, and worked on the National (Kenya) Public Sector
reform programme for 3 years. Dr Mbithi is Kenyan, 40 years
old, and resides in Nairobi, Kenya. He holds a PhD in Value
Addition Technology in Agro-industries (including Safety and
Quality Control Standards and Marketing) from the University
of Ghent, Belgium, and has 7 years of experience in the
industry (agriculture and fisheries) as a Chief Executive. He
lectured at the university for 7 years. He has worked as an
international consultant for organisations such as UNEP,
OECD and several governments and has published widely.
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Babacar Ndao
Cellule d'exécution technique
ROPPA (Réseau des Organisations Paysannes d’Afrique de
l’Ouest)
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[email protected]
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Hansjörg Neun
Director
CTA
Postbus 380, 6700 AJ Wageningen
The Netherlands
31-317-467131
31-317-460067
[email protected]
Dr Hansjörg Neun became CTA’s fourth Director in May 2005.
Before taking the helm at CTA, he was an Adviser at
Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and
Development (BMZ). He has considerable field experience in
Africa and Europe, and has managed projects and major
programmes for the German and European technical
development agencies, particularly in the fields of agriculture,
rural development, food security and natural resource
management. Dr Neun is skilled in fundraising and in
negotiating with governments, donors and international
institutions. In addition, he has a wide-ranging knowledge on
issues relating to management and organisational
restructuring. He gained his hands-on experience in
agriculture from a very early age – while still very young, he
worked on the family fruit and vegetable farm in Germany. Dr
Neun holds a PhD in Social and Economic Sciences and is
the author of a thesis on "Transfers of Technical Cooperation
Development Projects to Developing Countries".
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Barry Newton
Director
Belize sugar association
c/o 73 Chilton Rd Long Crendon Bucks HP18 9 DA
UK
44 1844 201908
44 1844 201 174
[email protected]
Mr Newton is the Chairman of Belize Sugar Industries and is
formally attached to the Belize Embassy in Brussels.
He is a Director of the Africa Fund of Washington DC (valued
in excess of US$1 billion invested in frontier African Stock
Markets). Previously, he was Managing Director of Booker
Tate Ltd, which is part of a leading professional corporate
management group engaged in a wide range of tropical crop
operations, specialising in sugar operations. The company's
clients
included
governments
and
private
sector
organisations. The operations produced some 2 million
tonnes of sugar annually in 18 countries.
Mr Newton was also a Director of companies in Guyana,
Jamaica, Swaziland and Zambia, and was directly
responsible for client relations in Barbados, Fiji, Indonesia,
Kenya, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sri Lanka and Uganda. He
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Anja Elisabeth Osterhaus
Coordinator
Fair Trade Advocacy Office
Rue du commerce 124 1000 Brussels
Belgium
32-2-2173617
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Nirmala Gangaram Panday
First Secretary
Embassy of Suriname
Avenue Louise 379
1050 Brussels
0472688934
026401172
[email protected]; [email protected]
[email protected]
Anja Osterhaus is Coordinator of the Fair Trade Advocacy
Office in Brussels. In 2004, she was given the task to
establish this office.The Fair Trade Advocacy Office
coordinates the advocacy activities of the four main Fair
Trade
Networks:
Fairtrade
Labelling
Organizations
International (FLO-I), International Fair Trade Association
(IFAT), Network of European Worldshops (NEWS!) and
European Fair Trade Association (EFTA). These four
networks bring together over one million Fair Trade producers
from more than 60 countries, 20 labelling initiatives, hundreds
of specialised Fair Trade importers, 3,000 worldshops and
more than 100,000 volunteers. Miss Osterhaus has also
facilitated the development of joint positions and strategies for
the international Fair Trade movement at the European and
international level. She studied political science in Berlin and
Mexico and has worked for various non-governmental
organisations concerned with the challenges of globalisation
for development.
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Sithembile Pilime
Minister Councellor (Trade)
Embassy of Zimbabwe
11, Square Joséphine-Charlotte, 1200 Brussels
Belgium
027756508
027795145
[email protected]
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Francesco Rampa
Programma Officer
ECDPM
Onze Lieve Vrouweplein 21 6211 HE Maastricht
The Netherlands
31-43-3502929
31-43-2502902
[email protected]
Francesco Rampa, an Italian national, is a Programme Officer
for the ECDPM's programme on the African Caribbean and
Pacific (ACP) countries and the European Union (EU)
Economic and Trade Cooperation. His current activities relate
mainly to the trade policies and capacity development of the
ACP countries and the EU, within the context of their regional
integration process, the Economic Partnership Agreements
(EPAs) currently being negotiated and the multilateral (WTO)
framework. Before joining ECDPM, he worked as an ODI
Fellow at the Department of Trade and Industry of Papua
New Guinea on trade policy and negotiations for two years;
and on the relationship between technology and trade at the
Bocconi University in Italy. Mr Rampa has a background in
economics and international trade; he holds a degree in
Economics and Social Sciences from the Bocconi University
and a Master's degree in Economics for Development from
Oxford University in England. His expertise and publications
are mainly on trade policies and development, trade
negotiations, aid for trade, political economy, innovation and
private sector support.
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Shiona Ruhemann
Social development adviser
DFID
1 Palace Street, London SW1E 5HE
UK
44-2070231809
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Christopher Sampa Chileshe
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[email protected]
Ministry of trade and Industry of Zambia
PO Box 31968
Lusaka, Zambia
+260955999587
[email protected]
Michael Sanfey
Ireland's Permanent Representation to the EU
[email protected]
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Robert-Jan Scheer
Head International Markets Division
Ministry of foreign Affairs
PO Box 20061 2500 EB The Hague
Netherlands
31-70-3485337
31-70-3484486
[email protected]
Robert-Jan Scheer trained as an Agronomist, and worked for
about a decade in applied research, rural extension and
project management in Latin America and Africa. He then
joined the Dutch Ministry for Foreign Affairs where he worked
on rural development, research for development (seconded to
the
European
Commission),
poverty
policy,
capacity/institutional developent and international trade (the
last three years of which he worked in a management
capacity). He is a strong believer of a more political oriented
approach towards development cooperation and in the
importance of strengthening of accountability systems
(including mutual accountability). His present work covers,
among others, trade negotiations, fair trade, growth and
equity, public private partnerships, corporate social
responsability.
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Ramesh Sharma
Senior Economist
FAO
Ramesh Sharma, ESTT, D-842, FAO, Viale delle Terme di
Caracalla, 00153 Rome
Italy
0039 06 570 52946
0039 06 570 54495
[email protected]
Ramesh Sharma is a Senior Economist in the Trade Policy
Service of FAO’s Trade and Markets Division. His principal
area of work at FAO has been on agricultural trade issues,
notably on the WTO agricultural negotiations, regional trade
agreements and agricultural trade-development nexus. He
holds a PhD in Applied Economics from Stanford University
and a BA from Tribhuvan University in Nepal.
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Nidhen Singh
Counsellor
Embassy of Fiji
92-94 Square E. Plasky, 5th Floor, 1030 Brussels
Belgium
32-2-7369050
32-2-7361458
[email protected]
Nidhendra Pratap Singh is a representative of the Fiji Sugar
Marketing Company (under a shared arrangement with the
Government of Fiji), with the designation of Counsellor
(Agriculture and Trade) at the Fiji Mission to the European
Union in Brussels. He attends to all sugar matters which have
a bearing on the ACP-EU, including representation on
commercial issues. He is also the current Chairman of the
ACP Sugar Working Group and a member of the London
Sugar Group.
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Annick Schubert
Chargée de mission PIP
COLEACP
rue du Trône 98, 1040 Brussels
Belgium
32-2-5081090
32-2-5140632
[email protected]
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Yona Sinkala
Livestock Expert/ SPS
Ministry of agriculture of Zambia
[email protected]
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Solène Sureau
Intern Agricultural Trade
CTA
Postbus 380 6700 AJ Wageningen
The Netherlands
31-317-467145
31-317-460067
[email protected]
Solène Sureau is an intern at CTA, working on trade and
development issues. She holds a Master’s degree in
Macroeconomics and Economic Policies from the Strasbourg
University (France).
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Nisa Surujbally
Director, Marketing and Trade
Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc.
Ogle Estate, East Coast Demerara
Guyana
592-222-6890
592-222-6049
[email protected]
Nisa Surujbally is Director of Marketing and Trade
Department, and the sub-department of Shipping and
Logistics of the Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc., (GuySuCo).
She played a major role in preparing Guyana’s National
Action Plan for sugar and is a member of the Joint
Guyana/EU Steering Committee which involves the
administration of Accompanying Measures for the GNAP. She
was involved in pioneering research in the feeding of sugar
cane and its derivatives to livestock in Trinidad and Tobago
(1980–1986) and the diversification efforts of GuySuCo in
Other Crops and Livestock (1987–1991). She joined the
Ministry of Agriculture in 1995 and provided technical support
and advice in deriving the Government of Guyana’s
responses at the various trade negotiations. In 2002, she
returned to GuySuCo. She holds a BSc in General Agriculture
and an MPhil in Animal Production.
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Sebade Toba
Ministre conseiller
Ambassade du Togo à Bruxelles
264, Avanue de Tervewen, 1150 Bruxelles
Belgium
0032277017
003227715075
[email protected]
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Claude Torre
Chargé de mission
Agence française de développement (AFD)
5, rue Roland Barthes, 75598 Paris Cedex 12
France
33-1-53443131
33-1-44879939
[email protected]
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Cherif Touré
Expert élevage
CDE
[email protected]
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Olten Van Genderen
Embassy of Suriname
ACP embassies
[email protected]
Kathleen Van Hove
Senior Programme Officer
ECDPM
Rue Archimède 5
Belgium
32-2-2374314
32-2-2374319
[email protected]
Kathleen van Hove, a Belgian national, started her career as
a Junior Programme Officer at ECDPM in May 1997. She is
currently Senior Programme Officer in the Centre’s ACP-EU
Economic and Trade Cooperation Programme. Her main
areas of expertise are ACP-EU cooperation, trade and
development, and regional integration. Prior to joining
ECDPM, she was Programme Officer at the Centre for
Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London. Ms van Hove
holds an MSc in Foreign Service from the Georgetown
University.
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Hardi Vieira
Development economist
Common fund for commodities
Stadhouderskade 55, Amsterdam
The Netherlands
31-2-06760231
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Angela Vigliotta
Counsellor
Embassy of Dominican Republic
130A Avenue Louise, 1000 Brussels
Belgium
023464935
023465152
[email protected]
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Boureima Wankoye
Director
Achat Services International (ASI)
BP12014 Niamey Zone industrielle
Niger
22727741760
[email protected]
Hardi M W Vieira is a Development Economist at the
Common Fund for Commodities (CFC), an international
financial organisation established within the framework of the
United Nations with Headquarters Amsterdam, The
Netherlands.
[email protected]
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Peter Wehrheim
Policy officer
European Commission- DG Agriculture
130 Rue de la Loi 1049 Brussels
Belgium
0032 22988578
[email protected]
Peter Wehrheim, a German national, started his professional
career in 1990 at EUROSTAT, the Statistical Office of the
European Union in Luxemburg. Between 1991 and 1993 he
worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Agricultural
Policy at the University of Giessen. From 1994–1998 he
worked as an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of
Agriculture, University of Kiel/Germany. He was a Senior
Researcher with the Centre for Development Research/
University of Bonn (1998–2004). And between 2001 and
2002, he worked as an Associate Professor at the Institute for
Economics and Agricultural Policy at the University of Bonn.
He has also had research stays at Michigan State University
(1988) and the University of Maryland (2002/2003) in the
United States. As an independent consultant, he has worked
for the World Bank, the FAO, and the European Commission
(1996–2003). Since 2004, he works for the European
Commission, General Directorate for Agriculture and Rural
Development. Currently, he is a Policy Officer in the DG
Agricultural Unit and is responsible for the coherent
implementation of the EU's rural development policy. He
holds a Master’s in Agricultural Economics and a PhD from
the University of Giessen.
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