Staff Member
Rajiv Pradhan
Country Director, Swisscontact Ghana

Program Management/Leadership: Over 30 years, including leading various private companies, projects, and development organizations in Nepal, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Laos, Cambodia and Ghana.

Market/Sector/SME Development/Inclusive Business: Over 20 years of experience training practitioners, enabling environment, supporting SMEs, network development, and practice in inclusive business in a socially responsible investment company. Experience includes working 6 years in Nepal, 4 years each at Katalyst project and iDE in Bangladesh, 2 years in AIP-PRISMA in Indonesia, 1 year in Laos, 1 year in Vietnam, and over 8 years at Swisscontact, Cambodia. Worked to spread the CSR agenda in the South Asian region since 2001.

Thematic: Strategy, big picture thinking, co-create, manage and support multi-stakeholder coordination platforms, brand thinking and promotion of development interventions, mentoring of young talent, systems re-engineering currently in the field of regenerative agriculture and transition financing, entrepreneurial ecosystem, impact investments and vocational skills