CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar
"Fostering Competitiveness and Catalyzing Private Sector Growth in Lower Income Countries: Lessons from Pakistan, Rwanda, Kazakhstan and Jordan"
Speaker: Justin Stokes, Director, JE Austin Associates
Friday, 9
November 2007
11:45 AM - 1:00 PM, Lunch served
Perkins Room, 4th Floor,
Rubenstein
Building, KSG
Justin Stokes is a Director with JE Austin Associates and a Senior Competitiveness and Private Sector Development Specialist, focusing on lower income countries. He works with entrepreneurs, corporate executives, government and non-profit leaders to develop strategies for strengthening the private sector as a platform for economic growth. He has led numerous industry cluster competitiveness initiatives across the globe, advising and facilitating government and industry leadership on strategies for raising the competitiveness of key industry clusters and their economy overall. Mr. Stokes has authored country and industry specific reports on competitiveness, utilizing a variety of benchmarking, market analyses, and other diagnostic tools. He has led and advised on long-term and short-term competitiveness initiatives in: Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Rwanda, Lao PDR, Indonesia, Libya, Morocco, Egypt and Jordan.
Mr. Stokes is a co-founder of a non-profit private equity initiative in Tanzania promoting domestic private equity investment in small and medium-sized enterprises. He has served as an advisor to the Ministry of Agriculture in Mozambique in setting up an investment fund to support start-ups and expansions in agribusiness. In addition, Mr. Stokes authored a case study at Harvard on the life science community in Nairobi to commercialize promising research and develop a life science cluster in East Africa. Mr. Stokes obtained a Masters in Public Administration/International Development from Harvard University in 2004.
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