Professional Experience:
Offering a meaningful career geared towards creating positive social and environmental impact, driven by integrity, pragmatism, service orientation and innovative thinking. Exceptional record of success designing, managing, and evaluating critical sustainability programs and strategies at various scales in the areas of corporate social responsibility (CSR), sustainable resource and risk management, environment and biodiversity preservation, industrial ecology, ethical trade, sustainable supply chains, poverty alleviation, social protection, and more domestically and internationally for governments, businesses, and NGOs/non-profits. Background includes work in performance optimization, value creation, organizational, SMEs, and community capacity building. Excel at creating synergies, building partnerships, coordinating multi-cultural teams, influencing in matrix systems, and adapting to complex changing environments, all of which contributed to developing a global vision.
Value Offered:
• Led and advised in each step of multi-sector program cycle including policy, strategy, program design & cost-effectiveness, multi-sectoral needs & risks assessment and impact evaluations.
• Advised organizations, governments, and companies on their corporate social responsibility or sustainability strategies to increase positive social and environmental impacts in conjunction with economic competitiveness.
• Designed systems to facilitate natural resources management, preserve biodiversity, reduce disaster risks, mitigate climate change, optimize energy and resource consumption, increase food security, and maximize sustainable development goals.
• Monitored and evaluated progress for Voluntary or Regulatory Compliance using or designing a range of environmental sustainability and social protection instruments including UN Global Compact, CITES, WB, ISO 14000, ISO 9000, TBL & QBL evaluations, ecosystems valuation, EIA, child protection & anti-slavery, gender & diversity promotion, and more.
• Guided the management of natural resources, sourcing, and eco-supply chain strategies to drive capacity growth, ethical trade, and community development in agro-industry, forestry, fishing/livestock, and manufacturing.
• Aided governments, organizations, and investors in designing, implementing and evaluating cost efficient & effective poverty alleviation, humanitarian assistance, and resilience-building strategies and intervention programs.