(2025) Turkmenistan: Gap Analysis of the Quality Infrastructure in Turkmenistan.

Role: Lead Consultant

The gap analysis is a contribution to UNECE’s demand-driven assessment of regulatory and procedural barriers to trade in Turkmenistan. This type of assessments is one of UNECE’s flagship publications, aimed at supporting governments in aligning non-tariff measures (NTMs) with sustainable structural transformation goals. Given its central role in achieving these goals, every assessment features a gap analysis of the National Quality Infrastructure using an actor-oriented questionnaires, aimed at identifying legislative and capacity shortfalls in technical regulations, standardisation, conformity assessment, market surveillance and metrology.

(2024-2025) Uzbekistan: Agri-Food Legal and Regulatory Support Initiative for Uzbekistan.

Role: International Expert Regulatory Impact Assessment

Technical Assistance for the preparation, evaluation and impact assessment of regulations in support of the agri-food sector, relating to Standards, Technical Regulations, and Conformity Assessment in the context of Uzbekistan’s recent accession to the WTO. With a focus on the draft Food Safety Law of 2025, and the Plant Protection Law of 2023.

(2024) Mauritius: EU-funded project “Improving Business and Investment Climate” in Mauritius.

Role: Team Leader

Responsible for the results of the project, with the following elements:
Activity 1. Drafting of Code of Good Regulatory Practice & Guide for Inspection.
Activity 2. Tourism: Development of the Tourism Development Act and Regulations, Approval and Implementation.
Activity 3. Trade & Logistics: drafting of a National Quality Policy & legal framework for Market Surveillance.
Activity 4. Land Use & Construction: GIS mapping, land use registration system.
Activity 5. Health: regulatory framework for health institutions.

(2024) QI4D, Elevating Quality Infrastructure through Regulatory Impact Assessments, June 11, 2024.
https://qi4d.org/2024/06/11/elevating-quality-infrastructure-through-regulatory-impact-assessments/.

(2024) Solomon Islands: Drafting a National Quality Infrastructure Policy for the Solomons Islands.

(2023) Vietnam: Assessing Vietnam’s draft National Quality Policy + Recommendations.

(2022) Vietnam: Research on international best practices, situational assessment, and provide recommendations for the National Quality Infrastructure (NQI) of Vietnam for the USAID Vietnam Trade Facilitation Program.

Role: National Quality Infrastructure Expert

  • Provide consultation and assessment to review, amend, and supplement the Law on Products and Goods Quality;
  • Research and carry out assessment, survey, investigation of the current situation, effectiveness, and impact of NQI in Vietnam;
  • Co-organize at least 4 consultative meetings with agencies of Directorate for Standards, Metrology and Quality (STAMEQ) to collect necessary information, develop NQI, and share experiences;
  • Identify and assess existing shortcomings between Vietnam’s policies and that of other countries and international best practices;
  • Develop related presentations/communications material in readiness for project and General Department of Vietnam Customs use, including the experiences in developing NQI of other countries and recommendations for Vietnam.

(2022) Georgia: Regulatory Impact Assessment on Technical Regulations for Construction Products.

Role: International RIA Expert

For the EU-funded Facility for the Implementation of the EU-Georgia Association Agreement-II, in the role of Senior Expert conducting a Regulatory Impact Assessment of the Construction Products Regulation, specifically applied to Technical Regulations for Construction Products, in relation to World Customs Organization Harmonised Standards, and EU CE Marking.

(2021-2022) SADC: 4-week RIA Training Cycle for Southern African Development Community (SADC), Technical Regulation Liaison Committee Officials.

Role: Regulatory Impact Assessment Training Expert

Consultancy Service to Facilitate Capacity-building Training workshops for Officials of the SADC Technical Regulation Liaison Committee (TRLC) on the Principles of Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA). Four-week training cycle, for four groups (two weeks for English speaking SADC Member States, one week Portuguese, and one week French).

(2021-2022) Laos: Trade Facilitation: Impact Assessment on the Improved Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Handling in the Greater Mekong Subregion. For the Ministry of Agriculture & Forestry.

Role: International Impact Assessment Specialist

As International Impact Assessment Specialist in coordination with National Impact Assessment Specialist perform an impact assessment on the improved Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) handling in the Greater Mekong Subregion 2012-2022. Training government staff in Data Collection.

(2020) Cote d’Ivoire/Senegal: For the American National Standards Institute, a National Quality Infrastructure Gap Analysis & Health Check for Cote d’Ivoire and Good Regulatory Practise Workshops in Cote d’Ivoire and Senegal +
Comprehensive Evaluation of the World Bank publications “Ensuring Quality to Gain Access to Global Markets A Reform Toolkit” & “Comprehensive Diagnostic Tool – Annex to the QI Toolkit”.

Role: Primary consultant

Working with ANSI and the national standards body of Cote d’Ivoire (CODINORM):
– Conduct a Regulatory and Institutional Gap Analysis of Cote d’Ivoire’s NQI.
– Conduct a National Quality Infrastructure Health Check in Cote d’Ivoire, including a SWOT-analysis.
– Technical expert for workshop(s) on Good Regulatory Practice in Senegal and Cote d’Ivoire providing presentations on trends in regulatory review across the African continent and effective implementation of RIA practise.
– Comprehensive Evaluation Report conducted on the World Bank publications “Ensuring Quality to Gain Access to Global Markets A Reform Toolkit” (2019) plus the “Comprehensive Diagnostic Tool – Annex to the QI Toolkit” (2019).

(2020) Mauritius: preparation of proposal “A-139920 Mauritius: Improving Business and Investment Climate, EuropeAid/139920/DH/SER/MULTI”.

Role: Bid Consultant

  • Part of the proposal is the “Development of a National Quality Infrastructure which will bring together the myriad of stakeholders, regulators and conformity assessment bodies”.

(2019) Zambia: Standards Alliance,  a Cooperative Agreement between the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and USAID  

Role: Lead Consultant

Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) Training Development

  1. Serve as a technical point of contact for ANSI in developing the content of the training
  2. Develop training agenda in consultation with ANSI staff and staff of RSS Group
  3. In collaboration with ANSI staff and staff of RSS Group, develop presentations and other workshop materials in accordance with the objectives of the project.

Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) Workshop Implementation

  1. Conduct the workshops
  2. Serve as an expert presenter for selected topics to be decided in coordination with ANSI staff and staff of RSS Group
  3. Assist with the facilitation of the interactive portion of the workshops
  4. Assist ANSI staff with the compiling of information generated from the interactive portion of the workshop to develop specific recommendations for implementing public consultation and regulatory impact analysis tools.
  5. Moderate the interactive portions of the workshops.

(2019) Saint Lucia: DfID / Commonwealth Standards Network

Role:     Lead Consultant Legal Approximation

Legal Review and Capacity Building. In the context of the Commonwealth Standards Network, and in consultation with National Quality Infrastructure (NQI) experts, the NQI committee, the Attorney General office together with the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel:

  • Review, revise and prepare draft Standards and Metrology legislation;
  • Conduct a Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) for the draft Standards and Metrology legislation which will be held as an example into how a RIA should be prepared and what should be included;
  • Develop a Good Regulatory Practice (GRP) policy document;
  • Develop and establish RIA template model document;
  • Develop and establish a technical Regulation based on existing Statutory Instrument methodology;
  • Develop and deliver capacity building to government officials in Saint Lucia and ODA eligible countries concerning the above bullet points.

(2016) Botswana: SADC-Trade Related Facility/EU

Role: Lead Consultant

  • Provision of TA to Develop a Project Proposal for Botswana under the SADC Trade Related Facility/EU,
  • Development of a Project Proposal on Strengthening Capacity for SPS management and control and the management of the Standards Import Inspection Regulations.

(2016-2021) El Salvador: Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC)

Lead Technical and Strategic Consultant, Regulatory Improvement Project, for the FOMILENIO II Programme

  • RIA on Weights and Measures: Discrepancies in Trade Weighting and the Corresponding Sanction Process
  • Review of the Special Law to Sanction Customs Offenses (Legislative Decree No. 551) + General Administrative Provision 015-2007

(2016) Egypt: EU Delegation

Role: Lead Consultant Training RIA for Industrial Sector Regulators

  • RIA-scenario on a new draft Metrology Law