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Philippe G. Seasoned entrepreneur, executive, farmer | Lifelong learner in agriculture, economics | Ongoing training on management and accounting for sustainability | Based in Southeast Asia
Last update: Mar 25, 2025
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Citizenships:
France, Lebanon
Languages:
Arabic, English, French
Highest Degree:
Masters
Experience:
33 years
Salary:
Countries:
Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, France, Indonesia, Lebanon, Mali, Niger, Pakistan, Qatar, UAE
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About
- Engineer, trained in environmental and life sciences, agronomy, and enterprise economics.
- Specialised in agro-enterprise, with extensive knowledge of agricultural production systems, 25+ years of hands-on experience innovating in agribusiness and climate-resilient agricultural practices.
- Extensive experience in business management and operations, including budgeting and finance, accounting, information systems, procurement, activity monitoring, and administration; leading enterprise development, including sourcing, installation, and starting up of equipment, organisation of supply chains, mobilisation of finance.
- Served as an independent director on the board of a $180M, 3000-staff company, heading the Finance and Audit Committee.
- Provides expertise on agricultural economics, agricultural policy and trade, and agricultural and agro-industrial value chains on donor-funded projects (ADB, IFAD, EU, AFD), systematically promoting a farmer-centric approach to the missions undertaken.
- Multiple experiences managing dialogue and collaboration with various stakeholders from both the private and public spheres around agriculture : farmers and their professional organisations, suppliers, traders, administrations, government officials, elected representatives, NGOs, and international donors.
- Command of information systems, statistical and database software, business intelligence. Diligent member of the stackoverflow community, a leading website for software developers, with an estimated 5 million developers reached through my contributions.
- Lifelong and passionate learner
- In 2021, successfully passed the “Data, Economics, and Development Policy” MIT MicroMaster Program, a university-level course on the use of statistics, econometrics, and experimental and quasi-experimental methods in the building of evidence-based policies. - Awarded university-level certificates on Theory of Change and result-based monitoring & evaluation techniques.
- Trained in the C.A.R.E. methodology for ecological accounting. Based on strong sustainability and dual materiality principles, and in line with the European CSRD, this method allows for the integration of natural and human capitals into the accounting and reporting framework of enterprises. - Works in French, English, and Arabic (strong knowledge of Middle Eastern dialect, intermediate learner of Modern Standard Arabic).
