Charles Krakoff

√ private sector development √ corporate finance √ value chain competitiveness √ investment analysis √ trade flow analysis √ investment and export promotion √ due diligence √ market entry and expansion √ capital raising √ feasibility studies √ business plan preparation √ industrial parks & economic zones

Over 30 years of experience in more than 60 countries as an advisor to multinational corporations, small and medium enterprises, donor institutions, government agencies, and financial institutions, focused on emerging and frontier economies in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East/North Africa. Experience in private sector development, investment banking, private equity, development Read more

√ private sector development √ corporate finance √ value chain competitiveness √ investment analysis √ trade flow analysis √ investment and export promotion √ due diligence √ market entry and expansion √ capital raising √ feasibility studies √ business plan preparation √ industrial parks & economic zones

Over 30 years of experience in more than 60 countries as an advisor to multinational corporations, small and medium enterprises, donor institutions, government agencies, and financial institutions, focused on emerging and frontier economies in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East/North Africa. Experience in private sector development, investment banking, private equity, development banking, financial restructuring and privatization of state enterprises, political and economic risk advisory, investment and trade policy, economic zones development. Sector expertise in agribusiness, textiles/apparel, mining, and financial services.

Founder and Principal of a consulting firm specialized in the above areas, able to deploy highly qualified individual consultants and teams of experts for short, medium, and long-term engagements for private and public sector clients.

Frequent blogger and commentator on international business, investment, economic, and political matters, named one of the top experts and opinion leaders in the 2011 "Who’s
Who of Wall Street and the U.S. Economy." Frequent advisor on political, economic, and commercial risk to major commercial and investment banks, consulting firms, and fund management companies.

• Columbia University MBA in Finance
• Fluent written and spoken French
• Basic Russian (spoken) and Spanish (reading)
• U.S. citizen

Engagements range from short telephone consultations on corporate investment decisions and political, regulatory/legal, and economic risks, and related matters to months-long policy and strategy advisory assignments, market research, stakeholder engagement, value chain competitiveness assessment and strengthening, organizational restructuring, national and regional investment and trade promotion, development of industrial infrastructure (industrial/technology parks, economic zones). These assignments typically entail desk and field research, stakeholder mapping and consultation, examination of legal and regulatory issues, and can encompass both a diagnostic/analytical and an implementation phase.

• Deloitte
• KPMG
• FMC Corporation
• West Point Stevens
• Parker Hannifin
• Fortune Brands
• McKinsey
• Fidelity Investments
• Morgan Stanley
• World Bank
• Millennium Challenge Corporation
• USAID
• Inter-American Development Bank
• Asian Development Bank
• Governments and government agencies in more than 60 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, Middle East.

• Deloitte
• KPMG
• FMC Corporation
• West Point Stevens
• Parker Hannifin
• Fortune Brands
• McKinsey
• Fidelity Investments
• Morgan Stanley
• World Bank
• Millennium Challenge Corporation
• USAID
• Inter-American Development Bank
• Asian Development Bank
• Governments and government agencies in more than 60 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, Middle East.