Rainer Engels

Dr. Rainer Engels is Economic Policy Advisor in the Sectoral Program Sustainable Economic Development. He is a senior consultant, with 13 years of experience within GIZ, the German implementing agency for international cooperation of the German government and about 8 years in civil society. His main expertise is in economic policy, private sector development, trade and investment, with special emphasis on industry in general and on the food, pharmaceutical, light industries, renewable energies and services sectors, among the latter especially business consultancy services, creative industries and quality infrastructure. His regional experience is mainly related to the transformation economies in Eastern Europe, the Southern Caucasus and Central Asia, to Eastern Africa including Ethiopia, and the Caribbean. He is agricultural scientist by education, with a focus on organic agriculture, agricultural trade, hygiene standards and intellectual property rights. Since 2016, he is based in Bonn, Germany.