The DCED Executive Committee (ExCo) meets once a quarter, to oversee the work of the Secretariat and the Committee’s various thematic groups. Its three members and two co-chairs are elected for two year terms; elections are held once a year at the DCED Annual Meeting.
Corinna Küsel, Co-Chair
Corinna Küsel is head of the Section for Economic Policy and Private Sector Development in GTZ, the German Agency for Technical Cooperation. In this position she is in charge of coordinating GTZ’s work for conceptual development and knowledge management in this field, as well as the technical advice to GTZ projects and programmes. Between 2000 and 2005, Corinna managed a GTZ programme for private sector development in Vietnam, as well as GTZ’s network for economic development in Asia. Prior to moving to Asia, she was technical adviser at GTZ headquarters in the field of SME development (for 4 years), as well as in gender issues (for 3 years). Before joining GTZ, Corinna worked for UNIDO as well as for a private sector consultancy company. She holds a Master’s degree in development sociology and has extensive working experience in Asia and Latin America.
Mavis Owusu-Gyamfi, Co-Chair
Mavis Owusu-Gyamfi is currently responsible for setting DFID’s
policy direction on private sector development (PSD) and managing a
team of technical specialists that provide advice to key partners in
developing countries, the international community and the UK
government. Prior to this she led the team responsible for managing the
Department’s portfolio to support economic growth in Nigeria. She has
extensive experience in private sector led growth and has provided
technical advice to governments in East, West and Southern Africa as
well as the Eastern Caribbean. This included facilitating the first PSD
Strategies in Ghana and Tanzania and successfully managing economic
development portfolios exceeding $400m in a number of countries.
She is a political
economist by training and an MPhil graduate of the Institute of
Development Studies at the University of Sussex. Her publications
include Binding Constraints to Growth in Nigeria (Palgrave Macmillan,
2008) and Growth and Competitiveness (World Bank, 2007).
Haleh Bridi
Haleh Bridi is the Director of the Partnerships and Advisory Services Department in
IFC. She joined the World Bank in 1991 as a consultant in the Africa Region's
Technical Department. She later held positions in the Bank’s Europe and Central
Asia Division and at the World Bank Institute. In 1998, while still at WBI, she
was named Regional Coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa region. Haleh
became the General Manager for Europe in 2000. In 2003, she transferred to
Brussels as the Bank's Special Representative to EU Institutions. Prior to joining the World Bank Group, Haleh spent ten years at the OPEC Fund, where she supported the Fund's lending operations in francophone Africa. An Iranian national, she holds two MAs from American Universities (Washington, DC) and Webster University (Vienna, Austria), in International Relations and Management Studies.
Martin Clemensson
Martin Clemensson is the Manager of the Small Enterprise Team at the ILO Headquarters in Geneva. The team supports the ILO field network in areas of enabling business environment, value chain and sector upgrading, business development services, association building, local economic development, informal economy upgrading, women and youth entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship etc. From 2004 -2007 he also chaired the Business Environment Working Group of the DCED. Before taking up the assignment in Geneva, he spent eight years in Eastern and Southern Africa with the regional “Start and Improve Your Business” (SIYB) projects, based in Kenya and later in Zimbabwe. The project introduced the programme to 16 countries in the Eastern and Southern Africa region. Before joining the ILO he worked as an economist at the Swedish National Board for Consumer Policies in Stockholm, Sweden. He holds an MBA from Business School Lausanne, Switzerland.
Dag Larsson
Dag Larsson has been with Norad’s PSD-department since 1976, and served in- between as Alternate Executive Director at AsDB, Manila; been the Resident Head of Mission, Colombo; Resident Representative, India, Nepal and Bhutan (New Delhi); and most recent the Regional PSD-Adviser for Asia, New Delhi. Before joining Norad he worked 4,5 years for the Ministry of Cooperative Development, in Kiambu and Nairobi, Kenya.