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I'm co-head of international innovation at Nesta, the UK's innovation foundation. Nesta's international team examines new global trends and practices in innovation, with an emphasis on emerging economies such as China, India, Brazil and Malaysia. The team works around the world to build knowledge, programmes, resources and networks for innovation that will help the UK to flourish in a rapidly changing global economy.
I lead on the Nesta-led executive development programme for innovation policymakers, the Global Innovation Policy Accelerator. Prior to Nesta, Benjamin was Head of Open Innovation at the London-based think tank the Big Innovation Centre, and a Senior Researcher at The Work Foundation. He holds a PhD from Henley Business School at the University of Reading, which focused on the evaluation of management and leadership development programmes.
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Senior economist with a strong expertise in micro econometrics.
Researcher and policy analyst for more than 9 years in the Unit of Econometrics and Applied Statistics at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission.
Motivated by policy oriented research. Main research topics in labour economics, applied econometrics and statistics, health economics, economic development.
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Degree in Social Work. Project Management. Production and content management for communication.
10 + years’ experience. In Mozambique since 2009
Soft Skills – Proactive . organized . independent . creative. persistent and sociable.
Has fulfilled roles in the coordination and project management, and in the creation of support (groups) for institutional and financial networking, project development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation.
In the past years the fusion between her skills in social intervention and communication has been her principal focus, through content production, public awareness and behaviour changes campaigns, compiling and treatment of information for external communication and analysis and research.
Creates her own teams according with each projects´ context, object and goal, thus promoting interchange between professionals whether they’re beginning their careers, proven entrepreneurs or already established. She has worked for the private and public sector, development agencies, NGO´s and community-based organizations.
Professional skills: Great learning ability, professional commitment, innovative (social, environmental and corporate), good social and work relations, excellent at adapting to new situations.
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MCs candidate in International Development and Management (LUMID) at Lund University in Sweden. Special interest in Culture and Creative Expression and the connections to sustainable development. Bachelor in French and literature, writing about postcolonial feminism in contemporary French literature. Have been working with intercultural dialogue and cultural promotion in Paris, and will shortly join the team of interns at UNESCO in Paris.