Here is what the practice of structuring international partnership programs takes and what I bring:

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• Years as a lawyer with complex, multi-party drafting and negotiating experience.

• A business mindset with practical understandings of how partnership governance works.

• Extensive experience with upstream funding vehicles, like full trustee and pass-through trust funds.

• Extensive experience with downstream funding operations, like loans and grants.

• The ability to move smoothly from conceptualization to documentation to implementation.

• A consistent focus on results and closure, always thinking ahead to operationalizing.

• Adaptability to specific contexts through dynamic interaction with clients and partners.

• Creative thinking and innovative approaches that make solutions out of problems.

• Unflagging attention to detail coupled with broad perspectives and big picture understandings.

• A knack for clear articulations of common ground among partners and constructive mechanisms to reach results.

• An understanding of different roles, like trustee, secretariat, decider, implementer, etc. that lets design be modular.

• An understanding of financial / fiduciary aspects, like fees, costs, fund use, procurement, conflicts, safeguards, etc. 

• A honed lens to troubleshoot reputational, legal and other risks, and then find and design mitigations.

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