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Mr. Flor E. Healy

MBA, DipPM, CdipAF, MMII (Grad.)

Senior International Development Consultant

Flor is a highly qualified and experienced consulting practitioner with 40+ years overall professional work experience in both the private sector (encompassing 11+ years in banking/financial services and management consultancy) and public sector/international development sphere (encompassing 29+ years focusing on Government-related advisory roles and international donor-funded development consulting in Eastern/Central Europe, Asia and Africa, in particular Sub-Saharan Africa). He is based in Pretoria, South Africa since 2008.

He is skilled and experienced in the relevant areas of: banking and finance (specifically corporate/commercial lending/credit assessment); agri-business development; trade/investment promotion/facilitation; government policy advisory; rural development/poverty alleviation; PR/event management; and business consultancy services to SMEs and government, including organisation design, strategic change management and HR development. He is experienced in general management, programme/project management and financial analysis/ management, as well as fully conversant with international donor procedures (specifically, the EC EDF, PCM, programme design and ex-ante/ex-post evaluation techniques). He has served in key roles as Team Leader, International Technical Expert and/or Senior Programmer/Evaluator on various donor-funded technical assistance and capacity-building programmes/projects (in particular EuropeAid and UKAid/DfID).

He previously served as a Government Ministerial Special Adviser within the Ministry of Agriculture, Food & Rural Development, Ireland. He has practical experience of policy formulation/implementation in matters relating to trade, FDI, agriculture/agri-food sector, rural development and international development initiatives. He has also been engaged in developing strategic plans for regional development, trade and investment promotion in Ireland, Europe and latterly, in Southern Africa. Specifically, on Trade Liberalisation he has provided technical advice and assistance to the Czech Republic (agri-food trade liberalisation negotiations under the ‘Double-Zero’ EU Pre-Accession Negotiations in 2000) and to the Ministry of Agriculture in Kosovo (negotiations in the context of CEFTA in 2006).

He has also been involved in trade missions to the U.S in promoting Irish food products, developing investment and trade promotion strategies for regional development in Ireland and undertaking international investment/trade promotion/facilitation in the SADC region under the EU-SADC ESIPP¹ ‘Agro-Industry 2008’ sector partnership initiative and the EU-SADC Trade Related Facility (TRF) and Trade Facilitation Programme (TFP).

He is experienced in designing and delivering leadership, management and professional skills training and capacity-development programmes covering all aspects of management and organisation development, including training needs analysis and coaching/mentoring follow-up. He is especially skilled in organisation/ corporate strategy/planning, organisation/corporate culture/change management, PR/communication and performance management/measurement processes (including establishing key performance indicators/milestones and monitoring/evaluation systems).

Adopting a continuous learning approach, he has attained professional qualifications to augment his experience. He holds a specialist MBA in International Agri-Food Management (ESSEC, France 1999), a Master of Business Administration (OU Business School, 1994), a Graduateship Degree in Marketing (Marketing Institute Ireland, 1991) and Applied Diplomas in Accounting & Finance (ACCA, 1991) and Project Management (University College Cork, 1994). He has also completed executive courses in Consulting & Coaching for Change (HEC-Oxford, 2006), the Oxford Scenarios Programme (Oxford Executive Programme, 2006), the HEC Finance Programme (HEC Paris, 2017), the Oxford Impact Investing Programme, the Oxford Impact Measurement Programme (Oxford, 2018), the Oxford Social Finance Programme (Oxford, 2018), the Impact Investment & Blended Finance for Development Agencies & Foundations Programme (Zurich, 2019) and Partnership Brokering (Istanbul, 2019).

With his broad cross-cutting sectoral and public-private sector international experience, as well as his relevant updated professional qualifications, he represents a valuable resource for achievement of your key objectives and strategies.

1. EU-SADC Investment Promotion Programme (ESIPP)