European Commission - International development & cooperation - Unit A4 Budget Support, Public Finance Management & Domestic Revenue Mobilisation
Economist
I work on financing for education in DG INTPA, Unit G3. My previous experience includes work on educaiton, as well as economic and digital policy files at the European Parliament, internaitonal trade, financial and budgetary policy at the UK Mission to the EU, and on entrepreneurship education, support for businesses and policies for sustainability at DG GROW.
Conseil stratégique, juridique et financier, spécialisé, ingénierie juridique opérant au carrefour du secteur privé et du secteur public.
Études, analyses et recommandations pour entreprises, fondations, donneurs, investisseurs, établissements publics à caractère industriel et commercial, entités territoriales et publiques :
– appui aux dirigeants pour construire, prioriser et exécuter des plans de transformation sur la base d’ateliers conduits avec les équipes (interviews, analyse des process existants, benchmarks concurrentiels, identification d’approches innovantes, gestion, …)
– assurer un sourcing actif, évaluation, des projets d'entreprise, la structuration financière la plus adaptée, la préparation des dossiers, le monitoring financier, le reporting aux acteurs privés comme publics et aux instances de gouvernance, l'anticipation des difficultés…
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Alignment with objectives and growth strategies.
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Guillermo Delgado is an architect with a focus on urban development and housing; and lecturer at the Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM).
He lived in Namibia for thirteen years, where he was part of the team that led the review of the national housing programs and the national housing policy. There, he was part of work teams, panels and committees of national projects on urbanization and housing. He has taught courses on research methods, urbanization in the African continent, and on housing. He has supervised master's and doctoral students.
Previously he was a senior lecturer at the Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST), where he headed the Institute for Land, Livelihoods and Housing (ILLH); and before that a researcher at the Labor Resources and Research Institute (LaRRI), where he worked with the labor movement on issues of living conditions and informal economies.
Guillermo obtained his degree in architecture from the Universidad Iberoamericana (UIA), Mexico City Campus; as well as a master's degree from the Berlage Institute (today The Berlage, at the Delft University of Technology), in the Netherlands; and his PhD in architecture and urban planning from the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa.
He has worked on various research, consulting, advisory, and educational projects; focused on urbanization, land tenure, governance, housing, social protection, informal settlements, co-production/self-management, and alternative socio-spatial practices.
He has also been a consultant for international cooperation agencies, non-governmental organizations, for the private sector, as well as for development banks.
He is currently the president of the Sub-Saharan Africa Chapter of RedMX, an initiative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to promote synergies between Mexicans living abroad, as well as with the country.
I am a policy officer at the European Commission Directorate General for Climate Action working on Climate Finance.
Carlos de Freitas has been working since 1999 in the field of sustainable development. He was the recipient of an AVINA Award in 2008 for investigative journalism, a fellow researcher at the Veblen Institute for Economic Reforms, a former Strategy Director of an Asset Management Company.
In 2011, he joined FMDV-Global Fund for Cities Development.
He currently serves as Executive Director of FMDV, with 20+ years of experience in the design of multi-stakeholder urban development finance programs and strategies.
From March 2021 to February 2023, he served as Coordinator of the Moroccan National support Program for Subnational Climate Action, called SISTIF, an institutional, strategic and financial expertise hub, implemented together with the Moroccan Ministry of Internal Affairs (Directorate General for Subnational Governments), FMDV and the two National associations of Mayors and Governors.
He focuses mainly on sustainable, climate and inclusive financing topics, as well as local economic development for Local, Regional and Central governments worldwide.
He co-authors articles, reports and mass-market publications, such as "Viva Favela! When the poor take their destiny in their own hands" - Michel Lafon Publishing (France, 2009), also published in Brazil in 2013, on the exceptional experience of Brazilian Community Development Banks.
