Mark van Dorp is an economist with over 25 years of professional experience in the field of Private Sector Development and sustainable economic development in emerging markets and fragile and conflict-affected settings.
Mark has a focus on identifying business opportunities, assessing ESG (environmental, social and governance) risks, responsible business conduct, value chain analysis, Disarmament, Demobilization & Reintegration (DDR), conflict analysis, conflict-sensitivity and security & human rights. He has worked worldwide in many fragile settings, including Cameroon, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Sudan, Sudan, Colombia, Iraq, Lebanon and Pakistan.
Over the last 15 years, Mark has focused on action-oriented research and consultancy work on how to strengthen investors’ and companies’ strategies and operational capacity to work in a responsible way in fragile settings, as well as to improve value chains and support SMEs, Internally Displaced Persons, refugees and former combatants, with the ultimate goal to contribute to equitable development and peace building. He has worked in various capacities in projects financed by multinational companies, universities, NGOs (including IDH, SOMO, Oxfam Novib, International Alert, MercyCorps), multilateral institutions (including World Bank Group/IFC, UNDP, UNHCR, IOM, ITC), the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Swedish Folke Bernadotte Academy and the European Union.
In 2017, Mark founded Bureau Van Dorp, a consultancy firm specializing in responsible business and private sector development in emerging markets and fragile and conflict-affected settings, working in partnership with a network of international and local consultants. Since 2022, Mark is also a Senior Associate at ODI and a Research Associate at LSE IDEAS, the foreign think tank of the London School of Economics and Political Science.
To read more about Mark van Dorp, kindly visit: http://bureauvandorp.nl/
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Geographic focus:
- Africa
- Asia
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Central America
- Chad
- Colombia
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Eastern Africa
- Ethiopia
- Gabon
- Iraq
- Kenya
- Lebanon
- Liberia
- Mali
- Mexico
- Middle Africa
- Mozambique
- Nigeria
- Northern Africa
- Pakistan
- Rwanda
- South America
- South Sudan
- Southern Asia
- Sudan
- Tanzania
- Western Africa
- Western Asia
Subject expertise:
- Actors in DDR
- Armed conflict (causes, dynamics, prevention)
- Armed groups and armed conflict
- Cross-cutting issues
- DDR processes, programming and support
- International intervention
- Reintegration
- Youth and DDR
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