Ashish Shah
Director Division of Country Programmes @ International Trade Centre
Geneva, Switzerland
Ashish Shah is a startup investor at International Trade Centre in Geneva. Ashish Shah has been working at ITC for 13 years in different capacities and currently serves as Director, Division of Country Programmes. He previously held the post of Acting Deputy Executive Director. He has also spent several years in the Office for Africa and the Office of the Executive Director, where he was head of strategic planning,monitoring and evaluation. Prior to joining ITC, he worked first at the International Labour Office in Geneva and then at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).Shah has more than 20 years of international and United Nations experience in the field of trade promotion and development, during which time he has been providing strategic advice on trade-development issues and engaging in high-level policy dialogue with stakeholders in Africa, Asia and the Arab Region.He has extensive experience both in operations and strategic planning, broad project design and management skills, strong client-relationship management and negotiating abilities, and a proven track record of delivering targets. Shah holds a master’s degree in cooperative economics and a PhD in economics from Philipps University of Marburg, Germany.
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International Trade Centre is the joint agency of the World Trade Organization and the United Nations that supports sustainable and inclusive trade in developing and emerging economies. Its aim is for businesses in developing countries to become more competitive in global markets, speeding economic development, and contributing to the achievementof the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals. The International Trade Centre’s Netherlands Trust Fund V (NTF V) is a four-year partnership (July 2021- June 2025) signed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of The Netherlands and the International Trade Centre to support micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in the digital technologies and agribusiness sectors. The programme includes both sectors in Ethiopia, Ghana, Senegal, and the digital technologies sector in a multi-country project in Benin, Cote d'Ivoire, Mali and Uganda.—ITC's mission is to foster sustainable economic development and contribute to achieving the Millennium Development Goals in developing countries and transition economies through trade and international business development and to enable small-business export success by connecting small and medium-sized enterprises in developing countries and transition economies to the global trading system. ITC gives particular weight to project implementation in the least developed countries, landlocked developing countries, small island developing states, and sub-Saharan Africa.International Trade Centre was established in 1964 and is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Arancha González
Executive Director
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Aicha Pouye
Director, Division of Business and Institutional Support
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Ashish Shah
Director Division of Country Programmes
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Dorothy Tembo
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Ferdinand Kjaerulff
Project Consultant
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