Floor coverings. Developed export and investment strategy for carpet sector through in-depth customer and competitor analysis and business modeling. Created high-level public-private leadership institution to guide sector policy formulation and address pressing business barriers. Led multi-partner initiatives to deliver short-term benefits to carpet businesses, ranging from business plan development to trade show participation.
Tourism. Developed tourism strategy to lead economic diversification efforts, conducting customer surveys to identify key segment needs and potential new market opportunities. Managed public-private strategy workgroup, ensuring joint planning across diverse range of actors.
Coffee. Led consensus building process to update national coffee sector strategy, addressing structural barriers to product quality improvement. Conducted operational diagnostic of key processing facilities and led development of new public-private market access initiatives.
Finance. Developed growth strategy for finance sector, addressing business and regulatory constraints. Led public-private workgroups to address sector barriers, from business intermediary capacity development to banking regulation reform. Conducted investor survey in three international markets to identify core constraints in attracting foreign investment. Mentored local investment support agency and assisted in capacity building.
ICT. Developed analytic framework for integrating performance metrics into national ICT strategies, developing multi-module toolkit focusing on ICT infrastructure development, e-government, and ICT sector development. Toolkit subsequently translated into Chinese.
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- Aref Adamali works as a regional economist for the World Bank Group, working out of Nairobi and Istanbul. He spent 5 years before this designing and manufacturing furniture. Having previously advised governments and businesses in developing economies on competitiveness and innovation, he applied some of this same advice to his family’s business. He realized that it is harder to implement good advice than to give it. So he is now back to just giving it.
