alessandro vitale

programme management officer

About

I am a Trade & Development professional with 10+ years international work experience in the areas of trade policy and regional integration (Southeast Asia and the Pacific, Eastern, Central and Western Africa), trade and investment promotion, private sector/SMEs and local economic development. Proven experience in advising the design and formulation, implementation, management and reporting, monitoring and evaluation of complex technical assistance, institutional strengthening and capacity building programs, for a variety of national and regional trade support organisations. Solid expertise in delivering and ensuring quality of policy research and high-profile studies, involving quantitative and qualitative analysis techniques, including value chain analysis for key export products and trade policy-sustainability impact analysis of regional trade agreements. At ease in maintaining high-level relations with clients and project counterparts, including senior government officials, communicating and presenting effectively project progress and results to different audiences.

Country

switzerland

City

geneva

Industry

international trade and development

Skill

capacity building, international relations, international development, africa, economic development, private sector development, economics, international trade, proposal writing, ngos, french, rural development, policy, international organizations, sustainable development, value chain analysis, strategy, project coordination, private sector, public policy, local economic development, south east asia, procurement, tender process, investment promotion, environmental policy, united nations, europeaid, institutional strengthening, project implementation, monitoring and evaluation, project formulation, partnership management

Experience

trade specialist

aets

2016-3 - Present · 10 yrs 7 mos

programme management officer

unctad

2020-2 - Present · 6 yrs 8 mos

project advisor

ministry of economy and development dem rep of timor-leste

2011-3 - 2011-9 · 7 mos

Advise the National Implementation Unit (NIU) of the Enhanced Integrated Framework (EIF) on strengthening the EIF in-country National Implementation Arrangements (NIAs), with the objective of mainstreaming trade into the national development plan and implementing the Action Matrix of the Diagnostic Trade Integration Study (DTIS).

trade promotion adviser-programme officer

international trade centre

2013-10 - 2015-12 · 2 yrs 3 mos

researcher and leonardo fellow

ifri

2005-6 - 2005-11 · 6 mos

Researcher at the “Energy and Climate Change” Department of the IFRI. Focus on a research project about the "Prospects for Caspian Gas Development and Export to the EU".

project manager - trade expert

aesa - agriconsulting europe sa

2012-10 - 2013-9 · 1 yr

In charge of project acquisition, management and implementation, quality assurance of project deliverables in the fields of trade policy, private sector development, economic policy. - Preparation of the Grant Proposals for Quality Agencies for the EU-funded TRAQUE Programme in Ghana.

consultant

fao

2011-10 - 2011-12 · 3 mos

Consultant for the study: "Articulating the Common External Tariff on sensitive food products: the case of the East African Community"

trade policy expert

undp

2010-1 - 2011-1 · 1 yr 1 mo

Advise the implementation of the UNDP/MoC TRADE Project -Research Component - in partnership with the Royal University of Law and Economics, the Royal School of Administration and UNESCAP/ARTNeT

consultant

the world bank

2004-1 - 2004-5 · 5 mos

Consultant at the “Macroeconomics and Growth” Unit/Development Economics Research Group (DECRG). Preparation of a complex dataset of US-based mutual funds investing in emerging markets economies ready to use for econometric manipulation.

undesa fellow

uncdf

2009-1 - 2009-12 · 1 yr

Support to project management and implementation of PRESEM (Microfinance Sector Support Program) and ACRIC (Support to Rural Municipalities and Inter-community Initiatives ). Support UNCDF/UNDP role in coordination and dialogue with government/donors/civil society in the areas of local economic development, trade and private sector development, local governance.