Expert Details
Cannabis Industries
ID: 738846
France
Education
| Year | Degree | Subject | Institution |
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| Year: 2015 | Degree: MA | Subject: International Peace Studies | Institution: UPEACE |
| Year: 2012 | Degree: MBA | Subject: Political Sciences | Institution: Sciences Po Paris |
Work History
| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
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| Years: 2019 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: CEO | Department: |
Responsibilities:Expert is responsible for the development, management and coordination of general services for the cannabis and hemp industry worldwide. In this capacity, he handles:- Strategic and operational support - Market Penetration Strategy - Market Research and Study Project Management - Strategy and Operations - Cybersecurity, Digital Compliance, and Blockchain - Transaction Services and Financial Advisory - Fundraising - Mergers and Acquisitions - Commercial Due Diligence and Financial Valuation - Audits and Business Plan Definition - Network and Strategic Partnership Expert is responsible for legal operations as well. He conducts research of local, regional and national partnerships; undertakes HR services and real estate; maintains technical expertise in coaching and training; assumes responsibility for international expansion, partnership management, and brokerage; and election of suppliers, distributors and customers. In a political support capacity, Expert's responsibilities include: - Legal and Regulatory Compliance - Public Relations and Governmental Affairs - Coalition Building and Cause-Driven Campaign, Event and Conference Production - Pharmaceutical Services - Support for EU GMP / GACP Certification - Clinical R&D Projects - PRE- and POST-MMA Studies - Plan Development and Elaboration - Protocols Design and Feasibility Studies - Targeting French-speaking Countries, Key Opinion Leaders and Participating Centers In directly related work, Expert supports the management of regulatory components and study logistics. He also manages investigation networks, oversees deployment of the leading European ESG cannabis assessment matrix, and engages in proprietary methods of assessing the value and risk of a business through a comprehensive qualitative and quantitative ESG model specific to the cannabis industries (including 200+ criteria). Environmental criteria: - Carbon impact - Hazardous material and waste - Water - Soil - Air quality Social criteria: - Customer satisfaction - Human capital - Health and safety - Better business Practices - Endorsement Governance criteria: - Accounting - International Organization - Ethics - Transparency and Impact Monitoring Innovation Criteria apply to multiple projects in hemp in Southern Africa, Central Asia and Eastern Europe. These include: land and funding research; certification applications; business development and growth; sustainability strategy development and implementation; CO2 caps; Phytoremediation and erosion; international brokering; and the direction of technical white paper publication. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2016 to 2019 | Employer: ECHO Citoyen | Title: General Secretary and Co-Founder | Department: |
Responsibilities:In his role as Head of the Advocacy and Participatory process clusters, Expert was responsible for:- Advocacy strategy implementation to identify and put in motion federative, concrete and actionable public policy reform proposals - Development of innovative practice of participatory citizenship - Analysis and synthesis of proposals produced by the on-going participatory process - Co-organization of 8 main events throughout France, including: - preparation meetings - liaison with local and national public offices - public speaking - drug policy reform -- a focal point - building a network of stakeholders nationally and abroad (100+ civil society members, institutions, elected officials, academics, media outlets, arts organizations, and economic affairs advisors) ▫ researching and creating the ECHO Scientific council -- comprised of a dozen drug science and policy experts from France and abroad. Expert co-directed the funding process, where responsibilities included liaison with philanthropist groups such as the Fondation de France and the Open Society Foundation, as well as research institutes and private funders. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2015 to 2015 | Employer: United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime | Title: Consultant | Department: Lao PDR Country Office |
Responsibilities:Expert worked in the Drug and Health, Alternative Development and Anti-Trafficking programs with the main task oriented on providing strategic and concrete orientations for the network of partners: UNIDO, UNICEF, the European Commission, the Government of Germany (BMZ/GIZ), the Government of Laos, UNAIDS and UNDP. His work was involved through the implementation of the the UNODC Sustainable Livelihoods Unit (SLU) Alternative Development Program.Expert's other tasks included facilitating coordination and active cooperation between the aforementioned entities and organizing weekly meetings with them. He also worked with information and data analysis from local programs and UN/Headquarters/project offices for the preparation of technical papers and speeches. He served as focal contact with concerned UN agencies and relevant drug control offices and institutions as well as UN field offices in the country. Expert was responsible for the organization of meetings, seminars and donor countries' official visits to promote wider cooperation with potential donors and partner institutions, as well as strengthening the network of national NGO partners. In regard to the Alternative Development Program, he: - Built the implementing capacity of program planners, practitioners and local governmental and NGO organizations by providing them with training on the theoretical background and practical skills to implement alternative development programs - Further contributed to build the capacity of local research institutions in the development, adaptation, monitoring and evaluation of evidence-based prevention programs according to rigorous scientific standards in collaboration with international research institution and the program developers - Conducted a review of documentation on models for alternative development and strengthening - Produced desk and on site-based quantitative research in the country providing an overview of the trends pattern in each development program - Provided logistical support to the hosting of the national consultation on compulsory centers. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2015 to 2015 | Employer: UC- BERKELEY / UPEACE | Title: Teaching Professor Assistant | Department: The Summer Peace Institute 2015 : Human Security and Peacebuilding |
Responsibilities:Under the Program Director and Chair Emeritus of Peace and Conflict Studies at UC Berkeley, the core program was centered on the inter-relationship between human and food security, drug policy, climate change and gender studies. These initiatives includes the management of the newly created interexchange working group on drug policy studies between UPEACE and Berkeley students.The objective of this course is to raise awareness on the added value of the Human Security approach. It addressed current and emerging challenges related to peace, human rights, gender issues, environment, and development, within the general framework of the implementation of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's). The program included 5 sessions consisting of 3-hour lectures, to take place 5 days a week over the course of 3 consecutive weeks. In the afternoon, classes were divided between two Teaching Assistant within Focus Groups in order to critically analyse the information given in the morning classes. Primary achievements included the provision of a developed analysis and application of the material, which involved: - demonstrating command of the theorist(s) concepts - indicating significant insights gained from the material - raising the level of the material to a higher level of analysis, i.e., applying and/or linking the material to Human Security, climate change, drug policy, conflict resolution, gender, education, and media In this capacity, Expert helped launch the “India initiative” for the 2016 summer UPEACE school program designed for students from India in order to enhance its outreach there, including funding research with local and international philanthropist entities. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2013 to 2014 | Employer: The Antoine de Saint Exupéry Youth Foundation | Title: Head of Mission | Department: Argentina |
Responsibilities:Expert cooperated on humanitarian youth projects, including onsite work in Argentina with the NGO Vol de Nuit, which has led actions for disadvantaged children in the vulnerable suburbs of Buenos Aires (Dique Lujan) and Bahia Blanca, with the aim of supporting the development of children’s personalities and the acquisition of their self-sufficiency through education, culture and professional training.He was also responsible for operational management of the psycho-medico-social center; strengthening of the networks of donors; including French and Argentinian philanthropic entities; financial assessment of the activities of the program; initiation of the construction of a nursery; and art therapy and alphabetization classes. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2013 to 2013 | Employer: United Nations Environmental Program | Title: Intern | Department: Energy Efficiency - Paris Office |
Responsibilities:As part of the Programme En.Lighten on energy efficiency, Expert supported the technical and policy work of the program country projects. He also aided in the coordination of the en.lighten partnership’s program, and supported en.lighten fundraising activities.In this role, Expert kept abreast of public and private sector strategies, initiatives and plans concerning energy-efficient lighting. He also identified potential leading private sector companies and prospective donors that could support en.lighten. He coordinated closely with the en.lighten Communications Officer to raise awareness of the en.lighten initiative and the integrated policy approach among potential donors and country partners. He also supported the Project Manager by writing briefings, guidance notes, memos, and other supporting documents as needed. Expert's responsibilities also included: ▪ Provision of support for the implementation of country activities in en.lighten partner countries Development of technical materials and guidance notes in support of partner countries ▪ Supporting the coordination of country activities with the relevant ministries of energy and/or environment, as well as international lighting experts, to deliver the policy and technical guidance as needed to country governments ▪ Supporting for the ongoing preparation and follow up of the annual UNEP Global Lightning Challenge annual worldwide meeting |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2012 to 2013 | Employer: Renaissance Numérique | Title: Junior Analyst | Department: |
Responsibilities:In supporting Lobbying and Studies on the impact of the digital in France, Expert created in 2005 Renaissance Numérique -- the leading think tank on the digital in France. He was tasked:- to clarify the issues of digital technologies and practices to political and economic decision makers - to contribute to the development of an inclusive society by cooperating with the public authorities on the digital divide within the French population. He was responsible for: - Helping in the development of proposals, measures or white papers while monitoring the implementation of the 19 proposals developed during the organization symposium: "Digital and crisis exit” - Strengthening the role of the organization's local referents on digital-related issues in order to support businesses, policy makers, local authorities and all citizens in regard to digital evolutions - Organizing public conferences, meetings with cabinet ministers and personalities of the web, writing reports, articles and press releases, as well as managing the think tank social networks - The organization of expert conferences with the members of the think tank network - Creating of the debate circles “To the sources of the digital” which regularly host experts in the field on specific subjects |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2010 to 2011 | Employer: French Senate | Title: Parliamentary Assistant | Department: |
Responsibilities:Expert was responsible for the restoration operation of a research laboratory in eco-epidemiology at the University of Kinshasa (DRC) in collaboration with a researcher at the University of Besançon, which served as an interface with the Congolese authorities and French academic staff and the former French Ambassador for the fight against HIV / AIDS and communicable diseases. This work focused on four dimensions:(1) research funding -- and public and private partnerships (2) the creation of an ad hoc structure to bring on the project (3) the design of the three-year implementation program (4) drafting briefing notes and talking points for the Senator. Preliminary building work started in September 2011 and was completed by December 2013. With the funding and experience of the Merieux Foundation and the Pasteur Institute, the project was able to start while having strong institutional guarantees for subsidies and the progress of its implementation. Expert assisted in the creation and maintenance of a blog (2011). Achievements also included the creation of a university doctoral training program in Eco-Epidemiology in association with the medical schools of Kinshasa, Besançon and Marseille-Aix II. Expert helped develop the modalities for student exchanges and faculty, the necessary budgets and cooperation agreements between partner universities. He also worked on the research and comparison of financial mechanisms for the introduction of a levy on all transactions on the French and European financial markets, in regard to the introduction of a tax on financial transactions in the Finance Committee of the Senate. Expert contributed to the legal drafting of amendments and bills, as well as to the management of intra-senatorial cooperation and cooperation with European institutions. He was also responsible for: - Delegation to the Foresight (Delegation à la Prospective) - Research and Redaction of the Parliamentary report on “The future of Junior High School students in vulnerable urban territories" - Organization and the logistic preparation of the missions on the ground - Peer review project on youth health with academics and involved French ministries and administrators - Work with the youth inter-ministerial team on youth social empowerment The report, submitted March 10, 2011, was approved unanimously by the French Senate Prospective Delegation. |
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Government Experience
| Years | Agency | Role | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Years: 2015 to 2015 | Agency: French Senate | Role: Parliamentary Assistant | Description: Expert has held multiple government roles, including work in UN agencies. |
| Years: to Present | Agency: | Role: | Description: |
International Experience
| Years | Country / Region | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Years: 2013 to 2016 | Country / Region: Argentina, France and Others | Summary: Expert has worked in numerous international capacities, in many cases bridging research gaps between France and elsewhere within Europe. |
Language Skills
| Language | Proficiency |
|---|---|
| English | Fluent |
| Spanish | Fluent |
| French | Native |