Expert Profile
I am a senior agronomist and rural development specialist. I am a devoted team leader and player who is flexible and comprehensible to new and challenging situations, keen at public relations, as well as mind-openness and diplomacy with strong organizational and coordination’s abilities, and with good intercultural, interpersonal, and communication skills. I have matured technical working experience in developing countries and LDCs as Chief Technical A dviser, team leader, project and camp manager and desk staff with private firms, FAO-UN and international NGOs. The role of project implementation management and project team coordinator had enabled me to approach and know better a diversity range of national and regional development issues (constraints & opportunities), and to work both independently and interact as well with different stakeholders (donors, beneficiary governments and private sector), national and international staff and team members.
Good experience on “commodity value chain approach strategy” meant in supporting on market-led agricultural commercialization, an important strategy for sustainable economic growth of a particular area through raising incomes of all actors along the chain (producers, traders, processors, etc. ). Organized discussion and assessment on adequacy of service providers, input supply services and strategies for improving access to inputs and equipment needed for production and processing, including financial modalities for short and longer term investments (supply chain management). Through stakeholders’ consultation assisted actors’ (public and private sector) coordination through the developing of MoU, LoA, a joint planning and programming for the creation and the establishment of solid working partnership for key solutions. Arranged and attended meetings, organized workshops to discuss and review the role of policy and institutions (including project based initiatives, governmental policies and institutional arrangements) in facilitating the process of dialogue for competitiveness, custom barriers in regional trade
consultant since december 2009 MedEnergy Rome
Chief Technical Adviser and Regional Coordinator with FAO ; March 2007 - April 2009 Duty Station Kampala Uganda
Ms in agriculture, Nov 1980 State University of Milan; post graduate Diploma 1982 Overseas Institute of Florence Italy; Training in Value chain analysis and approach
Member of Tropical agronomist association, Rome
Cnsulting experiences with different private firms awarded from EU, UN agencies and government international cooperation programmes