Regional Markets

Contributors’ profiles
Kirsten Hjørnholm Sørensen
email: kis@ms.dk
Kirsten is a policy and advocacy specialist and has since 2009 served
as policy advisor at ActionAid Denmark. She has close to 15 years
experience in policy research, policy formulation and lobby work
and has worked extensively on issues of development, human rights
and international law, conflict, food security and energy in the Middle East, Africa
and Asia. Prior to ActionAid Denmark she held various positions in DanChurchAid
in Denmark and Malawi for three years and then moved on to their European network
office, Aprodev, in Brussels for another three years. After that Kirsten worked as
Communications Officer for an international network fighting against caste discrimination,
IDSN, until moving on to ActionAid Denmark. She holds a Master Degree
in Political Science from Aarhus University in Denmark, and has studied Peace and
Conflict Resolution at American University in Washington D.C. as well as Human
Rights and International Law at Oxford University.
Elton Mudyazvivi
Senior Agriculture Portfolio Manager, Technoserve Tanzania Organisation
(Technoserve) | email: emudyazvivi@tns.org
Elton Mudyazvivi is an agricultural and rural development specialist.
Elton worked as agriculture portfolio manager, technical specialist,
programme manager and advisor in agriculture for 14 years with a
number of organisations. He worked in Zimbabwe’s Ministry of Agriculture as a landuse
planning specialist, before joining CARE International. Under CARE, Elton managed
agro-inputs and agribusiness entrepreneurship development projects. He joined
SNV in 2005 and is credited for his pioneering contribution in practical applications
of value chain approaches to rural development. Elton joined Technoserve Tanzania in
September 2015 heading the agriculture portfolio.
Abel Lyimo
Chief Executive Officer, Rural Urban Development Initiatives (RUDI)
email: lyimoabelp@yahoo.com
Abel Lyimo holds a BSc. in Economics and Library Science, from
Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, and a diploma in Marketing
from Purdue University, United States. As an economist and business
advisor he has over 15 years’ experience in advising business associations and agribusinesses
SME’s, including more than 10 years’ experience in managing agricultural pro-
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