Daniel Gomez Gonzalez

Education, Labour Markets, ICT and Regional Development through the promotion of special business development strategies, such as the design of Clusters.

I conducted qualitative interviews and processed data for a research project on Social Entrepreneurship in The Netherlands, led by Professors Dr. A.H.J. (Bert) Helmsing and Dr. Peter Knorringa, both at the Institute of Social Studies. The data gathered through this process was also one of the main sources for the elaboration of my Master's thesis: "The Emergence of the Dutch Social Enterprise: Opportunities for International Development Cooperation" (available on http://www.academia.edu/2219629/The_Emergence_of_the_Dutch_Social_Enterprise_Opportunities_for_International_Development_Cooperation)

I coordinated group work, participated in the elaboration of project proposals, and prepared presentations and written reports for clients. Our main clients were USAID and several Government entities, such as the Ministries of Education, Planning and Defence, as well as the Department for Social Prosperity. The main projects that I participated in were in Regional Planning for areas under conflict, where I coordinated a small group that was in charge of the component of Social Protection (Education, Health, and Youth).

I conducted interviews in regional and local government offices and produced a report evaluating the decentralized implementation of the national policy on Children and Youth. This product was used by a group of specialists from different Governmental and Non-Governmental Organisations for the production of an official Guide for Local and Regional Governments.

I conducted research and prepared, together with my team, a written report on Early Childhood Development in Colombia. The report was divided into two different sections: i) a comparative study on the advances of early childhood development in Colombia with respect to a set of successful countries, and ii) an evaluation of the expenditure databases and recommendations for their integration.

In 2008 I joined the Association of Students in Economic and Commercial Sciences (AIESEC), an international non-profit organisation that provides students with leadership training and internship opportunities. As part of this process of learning, I joined the Seabury Group with the mission to collect and analyse European Air Trade data, in order to improve the estimates used in their official database. The process was successfully finished within the time stipulated in the contract.