Simone v. V.

I have more than 33 years of experience as an accomplished adviser, programme and team manager, trainer, and facilitator. I have managed and led programmes and teams in the following areas: performance measurement, planning, monitoring & evaluation and learning (PM&EL), value chain development and sector change, organisational and institutional development and change processes, multi-stakeholder processes (MSP) and feasibility studies, youth and gender. In the last 5 years, I focused on Food System transformation.
During the past year, in my current job as Senior Policy Adviser at the
Inclusive Green Growth (IGG) Department of the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, I have been working on policy advice and programming on
Food and Nutrition Security (FNS).

My expertise ranges from evaluations and impact assessments of different
agricultural and food and nutrition security programmes, in addition to
designing long-term sectorial planning frameworks, integral annual plans
and budgets and objective-oriented planning principles.I have been
involved in longer-term capacity development trajectories on Institutional
Change, Multi-Stakeholder Processes (MSP) and result-based management.
My social skills focus on transfering knowledge and providing guidance to colleagues and partners, as well as having the ability to learn, analyse and conceptualise, and to promote cooperation using a tactful, strategic and active approaches in developing a vision with intercultural sensitivity. My strength lies in combining process skills with different content areas like sector and food system change, markets and trade in a globalising economy, and management steering. I have the unique combination of obtaining hard results, while being an aspiring and creative leader that uses her large networks effectively.