Olivier Tavignot

Chief Operational Officer

Deeply involved in management and mergers across Europe for 8 years, then Olivier has spent the last 12 years working as adviser in strategic management.

In Consulting, he developed an approach integrating business strategic development and coaching of leaders.

In early 2005, he created the company Question de Sens, working with Company founders and corporate leaders. He focuses on either personal Coaching or leading a management team which is engaged in a strategic reflection or which must succeed in making an important transition.

Olivier is also

 Member of the advisory network Trinity Partnership, operating from London, Paris and New-Delhi.
 Lecturer for Business and engineering Schools, and for Executive MBA programs in France (HEC, Edhec) and abroad, on subjects relating to strategy and decision-making processes in a complex environment.
 Active investor and member of strategic committees innovative companies devoted to bio-energy, health and finance.

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Yoann Guirimand

Program designer

Yoann GUIRIMAND is an expert in projects design and communication. He made numerous missions of advisory, project management, training & capacity building for the NGO Fondacio and its field partners in Chile, Togo, Benin and Burkina Faso. He structured communication of the NGO for its 20 projects in West Africa and produces communication and fundraising tools for the NGO.

He has also worked at GDF-Suez as a consultant where he participated in the development process and has designed the quality management software for the R&D Dpt.

Yoann GUIRIMAND has a Master Degree from ISEN engineering school. His expertise ranges from project design to operational management, organization, training and conduct of change. He is also a free-lance consultant in communications, and expert in web development.

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Rafiza Rahman

Director Development and Communication

Expert in development journalism and microfinance, heading the Department of Development and Communication at ICMSE. Assistant Instructor at the Press Institute of Bangladesh where she worked for five years and carried out several training activities and has written many reviews and articles on various issues regarding development, poverty and micro finance.

She has a M.S.S. degree in Mass Communication and Journalism from the University of Dhaka in 1994. Masters degree in European Microfinance Program from the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium, 2007. Mrs. Rafiza Rahman is highly specialized in micro savings product and management and has carried out intensive research on ASA Product Diversification and Savings Program.

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Pasha Ferdowsi

Programme Coordinator

University of British Columbia’s Sauder School of Business. Worked with FINCA International, an influential microfinance organization. His contributions to the microfinance management and developed program have ranged from mapping the organization’s business processes and tracking policy changes, to developing training & promotional tools and a security concept, to contributing towards an MIS implementation strategy and the development of an operations manual. Worked in Nepal as a community developer with ECTA, a local NGO, where he established a rural elementary school, trained teachers, and promoted a microfinance program.

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Dr. Abdul Khaleque

Technical Advisor

Dr. Abdul Khaleque is the Technical Advisor of ICMSE and Head of the Dairy Firm Unit. He is highly specialized in livestock and veterinary sector with more than 30 years working experiences. He is also actively associated with a large number of training activities for livestock and firm management development and working as a Strategic Advisor working on integrated agricultural development strategy deployments, evaluation & concurrent monitoring etc.

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