Fashion in the sky

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WizzAir had its maiden flight from Tel Aviv to Budapest in December 2012, and BLC produced a one-of-a-kind event: the first fashion show in the air.

I wrote and distributed the press release, invited foreign press to the press conference, organised interviews, coordinated our interns, helped with in flight logistics, and helped organise and guide a weekend in Budapest for the press, designers, and models.

Dozens of publications covered the event, including Le Monde, Reuters TV, and Cosmopolitan Hungary.

Sustainable economic development in ghana

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The German government's development aid organisation, the GIZ, carries out hundreds of development projects. By law, the GIZ is required to hire an external quality controller for its projects, and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) was fulfilling in this role for many years.

Starting in 2009 and continuing for two years, I was responsible for all of PWC's GIZ quality control projects. During this time, I visited Africa regularly, amongst other things interviewing African officials, inspecting facilities, and surveying locals who were supposed to benefit from these projects.

My favourite engagement is an economic development project in Ghana, in which banks are educated around micro loans to aid small Ghanaian businesses. Over two weeks in March 2010, I visited over 50% of Ghana's regions and conducted discussions with perhaps a hundred stakeholders.

iX Tel Aviv 2013

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Organised by Bootcamp Ventures, a global innovation platform connecting startups and investors worldwide, the "Innovation Exchange" (iX) took place for the 5th time in March 2013 in Tel Aviv, Israel, at the Peres Peace Center.In the spirit of democratizing the investment playing field, over 30 top Israeli tech startups pitched to investors from 15 different countries. BLC not only helped developing the iX' theme, but was also responsible to get the message out to the world - and the world to attend the event.

I was the project coordinator, so I pitched and invited over 180 local and international journalists and bloggers, secured media partnerships with French and German publications, developed and distributed press releases. At the event, I coordinated press interviews and conducted short video interviews myself with the investors to use them for marketing purposes. The event was a major success, the media coverage was great. Bootcamp Ventures, the startups, the investors were very pleased and most important, it was a lot of fun.

Vocational Teacher Training in Montenegro

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Another GIZ project I visited in my role as a consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers was a Vocational Teacher Training project in Montenegro. I chose to travel to Montenegro because I believe sometimes it's necessary to see what happens next door to where we live, and not only in the poorest regions of the world. The project's goal was to improve the vocational trainings for professions such as car mechanic or seamstress by conducting teachers' training and changing the curriculum of the schools. This joint effort between Montenegro and Germany - in this specific case to improve the country's educational sector, takes place because of Montenegro's objective to become a member of the European Union and thus to fulfill the EU's requirements.

I spent 4 days visiting schools across the country and discussing the project with the project manager and her team, school teachers, pupils and officials from the Ministry of Education. The results were very satisfying, the quality of the trainings increased significantly and more and more schools were offering the trainings with happy, satisfied and well trained pupils.

And, btw, Montenegro and its coast is one of the most beautiful countries I've ever visited - so yes, sometimes it's really worth looking next door.