In-house staff
NEW STAFF
Samira Bouazouni joined AFC in January 2022. She strengthens the Human Resources
department and supports the Francophone team in identifying experts, especially in Frenchspeaking countries. Previously, she worked for more than 14 years as a senior management consultant for a human resources consulting company in Germany where she gained extensive experience in the field of human resources management. She speaks French as mother tongue and German, English and Italian.
Rana Hajal joined the Anglophone team as Project Manager in August 2021. Ms Hajal holds
a M.Sc. in Sustainable Agriculture and Food Business from Nürtingen-Geislingen University in Germany and a Diploma in Agronomy from Syria. She has six years of international experience as a consultant for agricultural projects. In Syria, she worked for five years in the department of land management and agrarian reform. In Germany, she completed an internship at GIZ in the field of climate change, rural development and infrastructure. She worked as a student assistant at GIZ in the Global Project “Knowledge Centre for Organic Agriculture in Africa”, where she wrote her Master’s thesis True Cost Accounting in Development Cooperation. In addition to her native Arabic, she is fluent in German and English.
Juliana Lampkowski joined AFC Project’s Assistance Team for the Financial Sector Development in June 2021. She holds a Bachelor in Law and an MBA in Foreign Trade and International Business. From 2017 to 2020, she supported the sustainability of eco-villages and their food production in Brazil. Mrs Lampkowski speaks Portuguese and English.
Wael Louhichi joined AFC as a Junior Project Manager in September 2021. He holds a Master’s
degree in Agriculture Science-Animal Science from the University of Hohenheim in Germany and a Diploma Engineer in Animal Production from the Higher Institute of Agronomic Sciences of Chott Mariem Tunisia. He has both theoretical and practical background in agriculture, which he gained from several internships in Tunisia, Peru, and Germany. Prior to starting his new position at AFC Francophone team in the headquarters in Bonn, Mr Louhichi worked for various private companies in the area of dairy and poultry production. Arabic is his mother tongue and he speaks French, English, German, and Spanish.
Marie Müller joined AFC in August 2021 as trainee to become an office management assistant.
She graduated in bilingual (French/German) A levels and gained first working experience as assistant. From August to April, she works in the Project Assistance team and then starts rotating through all departments in AFC. Ms Müller’s mother tongue is German and French, and she speaks fluently English.
Alexis Nyamugira joined AFC in May 2021 as Project Manager in the department of Financial
Sector Development. He holds a master degree in Microfinance from the Université Libre de Brussels/ Belgium, an MA in financial management and a B.Sc. in Economics. Before joining AFC, he worked for the European Investment Bank headquartered in Luxembourg on a oneyear position as trainee. Mr Nyamugira also worked as a Junior Research fellow and independent consultant in international development with a focus on financial development in DR Congo and Kenya. He speaks fluently French, English, Swahili and is currently learning German.
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